gluaiseacht

Irish

Etymology

From gluais +‎ -eacht. Compare Old Irish glúasacht.

Noun

gluaiseacht f (genitive singular gluaiseachta, nominative plural gluaiseachtaí)

verbal noun of gluais (“move”)
Synonym: gluais
movement
1. motion
2. impulse
3. rhythm
4. (politics) organized movement
5. (music) movement
passage
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

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
gluaiseacht	ghluaiseacht	ngluaiseacht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gluaiseacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “glúasacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Entries containing “gluaiseacht” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
Entries containing “gluaiseacht” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

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