Gaeilgeoireacht

Irish

Etymology

Gaeilgeoir (“Irish-speaker”) +‎ -acht (abstract nominal suffix)

Noun

Gaeilgeoireacht f (genitive singular Gaeilgeoireachta)

1. (act of) speaking Irish

Declension

Declension of Gaeilgeoireacht (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative Gaeilgeoireacht vocative a Ghaeilgeoireacht genitive Gaeilgeoireachta dative Gaeilgeoireacht forms with the definite article case singular nominative an Ghaeilgeoireacht genitive na Gaeilgeoireachta dative leis an nGaeilgeoireacht don Ghaeilgeoireacht

Mutation

Mutated forms of Gaeilgeoireacht

radical	lenition	eclipsis
Gaeilgeoireacht	Ghaeilgeoireacht	nGaeilgeoireacht

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “Gaeilgeoireacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN