gealtachas

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish geltachas (“panic, terror, madness”), from geltach (“crazy, timid, skittish”), from gelt (“madman, one who goes mad from terror”). By surface analysis, gealtach +‎ -as.

Noun

gealtachas m (genitive singular gealtachais)

  1. lunacy
  2. panic

Declension
Declension of gealtachas

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative gealtachas
Vocative a ghealtachais
Genitive gealtachais
Dative gealtachas

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an gealtachas
Genitive an ghealtachais
Dative leis an ngealtachas

don ghealtachas

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