gliccus

Middle Irish

Etymology

glicc +‎ -us

Noun

gliccus m

1. cleverness, (practical) wisdom, ingenuity, skill

Descendants

• Irish: gliceas
• Manx: glickys
• Scottish Gaelic: gliocas

Mutation

Mutation of gliccus

radical	lenition	nasalization
gliccus	gliccus pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/	ngliccus

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

Further reading

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