gormghlas

Irish

Etymology

From gorm (“blue”) +‎ glas (“green”).

Adjective

gormghlas (genitive singular masculine gormghlais, genitive singular feminine gormghlaise, plural gormghlasa, comparative gormghlaise)

1. blue-green; sea-green, aquamarine
2. blue-grey
3. azure

Declension

Declension of gormghlas

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	gormghlas	ghormghlas	gormghlasa; ghormghlasa2
vocative	ghormghlais		gormghlasa
genitive		gormghlaise	gormghlasa	gormghlas
dative	gormghlas; ghormghlas1	ghormghlas; ghormghlais (archaic)	gormghlasa; ghormghlasa2
Comparative	níos gormghlaise
Superlative	is gormghlaise

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

Noun

gormghlas m (genitive singular gormghlais)

1. blue-green

   Synonym: gormuaine

2. (geology) azure

Declension

Declension of gormghlas (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative gormghlas vocative a ghormghlais genitive gormghlais dative gormghlas forms with the definite article case singular nominative an gormghlas genitive an ghormghlais dative leis an ngormghlas don ghormghlas

Mutation

Mutated forms of gormghlas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
gormghlas	ghormghlas	ngormghlas

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gormghlas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “gormghlas”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “gormghlas”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024