gealtachas

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish geltachas (“panic, terror, madness”), from geltach (“crazy, timid, skittish”), from gelt (“madman, one who goes mad from terror”). By surface analysis, gealtach +‎ -as.

Noun

gealtachas m (genitive singular gealtachais)

1. lunacy
2. panic

Declension

Declension of gealtachas (first declension, no plural)

bare forms singular nominative gealtachas vocative a ghealtachais genitive gealtachais dative gealtachas forms with the definite article singular nominative an gealtachas genitive an ghealtachais dative leis an ngealtachas don ghealtachas

Related terms

• gealt
• gealtach

Mutation

Mutated forms of gealtachas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
gealtachas	ghealtachas	ngealtachas

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