gluaiseacht

Irish

Etymology

From gluais +‎ -eacht. Compare Old Irish glúasacht.

Noun

gluaiseacht f (genitive singular gluaiseachta, nominative plural gluaiseachtaí)

1. verbal noun of gluais (“move”)

   Synonym: gluais

2. movement
   1. motion
   2. impulse
   3. rhythm
   4. (politics) organized movement
   5. (music) movement
3. passage
4. power

Declension

Declension of gluaiseacht (third declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative gluaiseacht gluaiseachtaí vocative a ghluaiseacht a ghluaiseachtaí genitive gluaiseachta gluaiseachtaí dative gluaiseacht gluaiseachtaí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an ghluaiseacht na gluaiseachtaí genitive na gluaiseachta na ngluaiseachtaí dative leis an ngluaiseacht don ghluaiseacht leis na gluaiseachtaí

Derived terms

• gluaiseacht bheartaithe (“set play”)
• gluaiseacht chogaíochta (“war machine”)
• gluaiseacht éacúiméineach (“ecumenical movement”)
• gluaiseacht faoi choim (“the underground”)
• gluaiseacht ilchríochach (“continental drift”)
• gluaiseacht na mban (“women's movement”)
• gluaiseacht na saoirse (“liberation movement”)
• gluaiseacht phionsúir (“pincer movement”)
• gluaiseacht síochána (“peace movement”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of gluaiseacht

radical	lenition	eclipsis
gluaiseacht	ghluaiseacht	ngluaiseacht

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) “gluaiseacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “glúasacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “gluaiseacht”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “gluaiseacht”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024