galldacht

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish *galldacht.

Noun

galldacht f (genitive singular galldachta)

1. Synonym of galldachas (“foreign ways; Anglicization”)

Declension

Declension of galldacht

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun): Case Singular Nominative galldacht Vocative a ghalldacht Genitive galldachta Dative galldacht

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an ghalldacht Genitive na galldachta Dative leis an ngalldacht don ghalldacht

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
galldacht	ghalldacht	ngalldacht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “galldachas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “galldacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language