gailearaí

Irish

Alternative forms

• gailéirí, galaraí

Etymology

From English gallery, from Middle English galery, from Middle French gallerie, from Old French gallerie (“a long portico, a gallery”), from Medieval Latin galeria (“gallery”).

Noun

gailearaí m (genitive singular gailearaí, nominative plural gailearaithe)

1. gallery (institution, building, or room for the exhibition and conservation of works of art; establishment that buys, sells, and displays works of art)

   Synonym: dánlann

2. gallery (browsable collection of images, font styles, etc.; roofed promenade along the wall of a building)

Declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative gailearaí gailearaithe Vocative a ghailearaí a ghailearaithe Genitive gailearaí gailearaithe Dative gailearaí gailearaithe

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an gailearaí na gailearaithe Genitive an ghailearaí na ngailearaithe Dative leis an ngailearaí don ghailearaí leis na gailearaithe

Declension of gailearaí

Fourth declension

Derived terms

• gailearaí ealaíne (“art gallery”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
gailearaí	ghailearaí	ngailearaí
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gaillér”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gailearaí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN