gallúnach

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish gallúinech (soap).[3]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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gallúnach f (genitive singular gallúnaí, nominative plural gallúnacha)

  1. soap
    Synonym: sópa
  2. (familiar) flattery, cajolery

Declension

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
gallúnach ghallúnach ngallúnach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ gallúnach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gallaoineach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gallúinech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 120

Further reading

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