bolscaireacht

Irish

Alternative forms

• bolsaireacht

Etymology

From bolscaire (“herald; crier; announcer; booster, publicist; ranter, blusterer; propagandist; blubberer”) +‎ -acht (abstract nominal suffix).

Noun

bolscaireacht f (genitive singular bolscaireachta)

1. (act of) announcing
2. publicity; propaganda

Declension

Declension of bolscaireacht (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative bolscaireacht vocative a bholscaireacht genitive bolscaireachta dative bolscaireacht forms with the definite article case singular nominative an bholscaireacht genitive na bolscaireachta dative leis an mbolscaireacht don bholscaireacht

Mutation

Mutated forms of bolscaireacht

radical	lenition	eclipsis
bolscaireacht	bholscaireacht	mbolscaireacht

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) “bolscaireacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN