gliomach

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Cognate with Scottish Gaelic giomach, Manx gimmagh, and possibly Welsh cimwch.

Pronunciation

Noun

gliomach m (genitive singular gliomaigh, nominative plural gliomaigh)

  1. lobster (a crustacean of the Nephropidae family, dark green or blue-black in colour turning bright red when cooked, with a hard shell and claws, which is used as a seafood)

Declension

Declension of gliomach (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative gliomach gliomaigh
vocative a ghliomaigh a ghliomacha
genitive gliomaigh gliomach
dative gliomach gliomaigh
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an gliomach na gliomaigh
genitive an ghliomaigh na ngliomach
dative leis an ngliomach
don ghliomach 		leis na gliomaigh

Derived terms

  • ábhach gliomach m (“lobsterhole”)
  • aice gliomach f (“lobsterhole”)
  • gliomach carraige m (“rock lobster”)
  • gliomach fionnuisce m (“crawfish”)
  • gliomach Muire m (“crawfish”)
  • gliomach spíonach m (“spiny lobster”)
  • pota gliomach m (“lobster-pot”)
  • gliomadóir m (“lobster-fisher”)
  • gliomadóireacht f (“lobster-fishing”)
  • gliomóg f (“(small) lobster”)
  • gliomshúileach (“lobster-eyed”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of gliomach
radical lenition eclipsis
gliomach ghliomach ngliomach

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

References

  1. ^ “gliomach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931), Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 39, page 21
  3. ^ de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1975), The Irish of Cois Fhairrge, Co. Galway: A Phonetic Study, revised edition, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, § 364, page 82, line 157
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 97, page 38

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