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, no plural)

bare forms 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

Mutated forms of galldacht

radical	lenition	eclipsis
galldacht	ghalldacht	ngalldacht

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) “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