gléineacht

Irish

Etymology

From gléine +‎ -acht (compare gléineach).

Noun

gléineacht f (genitive singular gléineachta)

1. Alternative form of gléine (“clearness, clarity, lucidity, transparence, brightness, brilliance, crispness, luminosity, sharpness, vibrancy, vividness”)

Declension

Declension of gléineacht (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative gléineacht vocative a ghléineacht genitive gléineachta dative gléineacht forms with the definite article case singular nominative an ghléineacht genitive na gléineachta dative leis an ngléineacht don ghléineacht

Mutation

Mutated forms of gléineacht

radical	lenition	eclipsis
gléineacht	ghléineacht	ngléineacht

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) “gléine”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “gléineacht”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “gléineacht”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024