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”)

Etymology 2

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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