glór

See also: glor and glòr

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish glór.

Noun

glór m (genitive singular glóir, nominative plural glórtha)

  1. voice
    1. speech, utterance
    2. sound, noise
    3. (linguistics) voice
Declension
Declension of glór

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative glór glórtha
Vocative a ghlóir a ghlórtha
Genitive glóir glórtha
Dative glór glórtha

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an glór na glórtha
Genitive an ghlóir na nglórtha
Dative leis an nglór

don ghlór

 leis na glórtha
Derived terms
  • anghlór (“strange, unnatural, sound, voice”)
  • ardghlórach (“loud-voiced, clamorous, loud, loud-mouthed, vociferous”, adjective)
  • dea-ghlór (“good, kind, word, remark”)
  • glórach (“noisy, boisterous; vocal; voiced”, adjective)
  • glóraíl (“sound of voices, vociferation, noisiness”)

Adjective

glór (genitive singular masculine glóir, genitive singular feminine glóire, plural glóra, comparative glóire)

  1. Alternative form of gleoir (“clear, bright, limpid”)
Declension
Declension of glór
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative glór ghlór glóra;
ghlóra²
Vocative ghlóir glóra
Genitive glóre glóra glór
Dative glór;
ghlór¹		 ghlór;
ghlóir (archaic)		 glóra;
ghlóra²
Comparative níos glóre
Superlative is glóre

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

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

Further reading
  • "glór" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “glór” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
  • “2 glór” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Old Irish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡloːr/

Noun

glór m

  1. voice, sound, noise
  2. speech, utterance
  3. babbling, talkativeness
  4. sound, noise
  5. song (of birds)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
glór glór
pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/		 nglór
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • “2 glór” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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