giallnas

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish gíallnus (“hostageship, captivity”), from gíall (“human pledge, hostage”).

Noun

giallnas m (genitive singular giallnais)

1. (literary) hostageship

   Synonym: giallacht

Declension

Declension of giallnas (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative giallnas vocative a ghiallnais genitive giallnais dative giallnas forms with the definite article case singular nominative an giallnas genitive an ghiallnais dative leis an ngiallnas don ghiallnas

Mutation

Mutated forms of giallnas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
giallnas	ghiallnas	ngiallnas

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