gillaighecht

Middle Irish

Alternative forms

• gillaidheacht
• giollaigheacht

Etymology

gilla +‎ -ighecht.

Noun

gillaighecht f

1. boyhood
2. service, the office of a servant, the state of being a servant

Mutation

Mutation of gillaighecht

radical	lenition	nasalization
gillaighecht	gillaighecht pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/	ngillaighecht

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

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gillaidecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language