giollacht

Irish

Alternative forms
  • giollachan, giollaíocht
  • giollaidheacht, giollaigheacht, giolluigheacht (obsolete)[1][2]

Etymology

From Middle Irish gillacht.[3] By surface analysis, giolla +‎ -acht.

Pronunciation
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈɟɨ̞l̪ˠa(x)t̪ˠ/[4]

Noun

giollacht f (genitive singular giollachta)

  1. attendance (state of attending)
  2. service (act of being of assistance to someone)
  3. guiding, guidance (act or process of guiding)
  4. tending (looking after)

Declension
Declension of giollacht

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun):

Case Singular
Nominative giollacht
Vocative a ghiollacht
Genitive giollachta
Dative giollacht

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an ghiollacht
Genitive na giollachta
Dative leis an ngiollacht

don ghiollacht

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
giollacht ghiollacht ngiollacht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. “giollacht”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “gillaidecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “gillacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 38

Further reading
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