glacach

Irish

Etymology

From glac +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

glacach (genitive singular masculine glacaigh, genitive singular feminine glacaí, plural glacacha, comparative glacaí)

1. hand-like; grasping
2. receptive
3. forked

Declension

Declension of glacach

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	glacach	ghlacach	glacacha; ghlacacha2
vocative	ghlacaigh		glacacha
genitive		glacaí	glacacha	glacach
dative	glacach; ghlacach1	ghlacach; ghlacaigh (archaic)	glacacha; ghlacacha2
Comparative	níos glacaí
Superlative	is glacaí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

• teanga ghlacach (“receptive language”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of glacach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
glacach	ghlacach	nglacach

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