"eolas" meaning in Irish

See eolas in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈoːl̪ˠəsˠ/ [Munster], /ˈoːlˠəsˠ/ [Connacht], /ˈɔːlˠəsˠ/ [Ulster]
Etymology: From Middle Irish eólas, from Old Irish eulas m (“knowledge, information”). Etymology templates: {{inh|ga|mga|eólas}} Middle Irish eólas, {{inh|ga|sga|eulas|g=m|t=knowledge, information}} Old Irish eulas m (“knowledge, information”) Head templates: {{head|ga|noun|genitive singular|eolais||||||||-|||||altform=|cat2=|f1request=1|f4request=1|g=m|g2=|g3=|head=}} eolas m (genitive singular eolais), {{ga-noun|m|eolais|-}} eolas m (genitive singular eolais) Inflection templates: {{ga-mut|msn}} Forms: eolais [genitive, singular], no-table-tags [table-tags], eolas [indefinite, nominative, singular], a eolais [indefinite, singular, vocative], eolais [genitive, indefinite, singular], eolas [dative, indefinite, singular], no-table-tags [table-tags], an t-eolas [definite, nominative, singular], an eolais [definite, genitive, singular], leis an eolas [dative, definite, singular], don eolas [dative, definite, singular], no-table-tags [table-tags], eolas [error-unrecognized-form], n-eolas [error-unrecognized-form], heolas [error-unrecognized-form], t-eolas [error-unrecognized-form]
  1. knowledge, understanding Tags: masculine Synonyms (knowledge): fios [information]
    Sense id: en-eolas-ga-noun-TUVHU90x Categories (other): Irish entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Sciences, Thinking Disambiguation of Irish entries with incorrect language header: 58 29 14 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 60 20 20 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 59 21 21 Disambiguation of Sciences: 64 18 18 Disambiguation of Thinking: 64 18 18 Disambiguation of 'knowledge': 69 31 0
  2. acquaintance, familiarity Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-eolas-ga-noun-cv33eSdl
  3. information Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-eolas-ga-noun-3qcRGoQG
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: aiseolas, bileog eolais, bréageolas (english: disinformation), craobh eolais (english: signpost), cuaille eolais (english: signpost), do-eolais (english: unknown, uncharted) [adjective], eolas gintlí (english: heathen lore; sorcery), eolas imshaoil (english: environmental studies), foinse eolais [source], maide eolais (english: signpost), méar eolais (english: finger-post), réalta eolais (english: guiding star, lodestar)

Inflected forms

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "aiseolas"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "bileog eolais"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "disinformation",
      "translation": "disinformation",
      "word": "bréageolas"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "signpost",
      "translation": "signpost",
      "word": "craobh eolais"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "signpost",
      "translation": "signpost",
      "word": "cuaille eolais"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "unknown, uncharted",
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "translation": "unknown, uncharted",
      "word": "do-eolais"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "heathen lore; sorcery",
      "translation": "heathen lore; sorcery",
      "word": "eolas gintlí"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "environmental studies",
      "translation": "environmental studies",
      "word": "eolas imshaoil"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "raw_tags": [
        "of information"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "source"
      ],
      "word": "foinse eolais"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "signpost",
      "translation": "signpost",
      "word": "maide eolais"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "finger-post",
      "translation": "finger-post",
      "word": "méar eolais"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "english": "guiding star, lodestar",
      "translation": "guiding star, lodestar",
      "word": "réalta eolais"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "mga",
        "3": "eólas"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle Irish eólas",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
        "2": "sga",
        "3": "eulas",
        "g": "m",
        "t": "knowledge, information"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle Irish eólas, from Old Irish eulas m (“knowledge, information”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "eolais",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eolas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a eolais",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eolais",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eolas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an t-eolas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an eolais",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis an eolas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "don eolas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ga-mut",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eolas",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "n-eolas",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heolas",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "t-eolas",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "ga",
        "10": "",
        "11": "",
        "12": "-",
        "13": "",
        "14": "",
        "15": "",
        "16": "",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "genitive singular",
        "4": "eolais",
        "5": "",
        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
        "altform": "",
        "cat2": "",
        "f1request": "1",
        "f4request": "1",
        "g": "m",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "eolas m (genitive singular eolais)",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "2": "eolais",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "eolas m (genitive singular eolais)",
      "name": "ga-noun"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "msn"
      },
      "name": "ga-mut"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Irish",
  "lang_code": "ga",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "58 29 14",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "60 20 20",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "59 21 21",
          "kind": "other",
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "64 18 18",
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          "name": "Sciences",
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "64 18 18",
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          "langcode": "ga",
          "name": "Thinking",
          "orig": "ga:Thinking",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
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        "knowledge, understanding"
      ],
      "id": "en-eolas-ga-noun-TUVHU90x",
      "links": [
        [
          "knowledge",
          "knowledge"
        ],
        [
          "understanding",
          "understanding"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "69 31 0",
          "sense": "knowledge",
          "topics": [
            "information"
          ],
          "word": "fios"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              3,
              8
            ]
          ],
          "english": "I am familiar with, am acquainted with, this place.",
          "text": "Tá eolas agam ar an áit seo.",
          "translation": "I am familiar with, am acquainted with, this place.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "acquaintance, familiarity"
      ],
      "id": "en-eolas-ga-noun-cv33eSdl",
      "links": [
        [
          "acquaintance",
          "acquaintance"
        ],
        [
          "familiarity",
          "familiarity"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "information"
      ],
      "id": "en-eolas-ga-noun-3qcRGoQG",
      "links": [
        [
          "information",
          "information"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈoːl̪ˠəsˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Munster"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈoːlˠəsˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Connacht"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɔːlˠəsˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Ulster"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "eolas"
}
{
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    "Irish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Irish first-declension nouns",
    "Irish lemmas",
    "Irish masculine nouns",
    "Irish nouns",
    "Irish terms derived from Middle Irish",
    "Irish terms derived from Old Irish",
    "Irish terms inherited from Middle Irish",
    "Irish terms inherited from Old Irish",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "ga:Sciences",
    "ga:Thinking"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "aiseolas"
    },
    {
      "word": "bileog eolais"
    },
    {
      "english": "disinformation",
      "translation": "disinformation",
      "word": "bréageolas"
    },
    {
      "english": "signpost",
      "translation": "signpost",
      "word": "craobh eolais"
    },
    {
      "english": "signpost",
      "translation": "signpost",
      "word": "cuaille eolais"
    },
    {
      "english": "unknown, uncharted",
      "tags": [
        "adjective"
      ],
      "translation": "unknown, uncharted",
      "word": "do-eolais"
    },
    {
      "english": "heathen lore; sorcery",
      "translation": "heathen lore; sorcery",
      "word": "eolas gintlí"
    },
    {
      "english": "environmental studies",
      "translation": "environmental studies",
      "word": "eolas imshaoil"
    },
    {
      "raw_tags": [
        "of information"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "source"
      ],
      "word": "foinse eolais"
    },
    {
      "english": "signpost",
      "translation": "signpost",
      "word": "maide eolais"
    },
    {
      "english": "finger-post",
      "translation": "finger-post",
      "word": "méar eolais"
    },
    {
      "english": "guiding star, lodestar",
      "translation": "guiding star, lodestar",
      "word": "réalta eolais"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
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      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ga",
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        "3": "eulas",
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        "t": "knowledge, information"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle Irish eólas, from Old Irish eulas m (“knowledge, information”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "eolais",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eolas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "a eolais",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eolais",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eolas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an t-eolas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "an eolais",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leis an eolas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "don eolas",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ga-mut",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "eolas",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "n-eolas",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "heolas",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "t-eolas",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    }
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        "6": "",
        "7": "",
        "8": "",
        "9": "",
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        "f1request": "1",
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      },
      "expansion": "eolas m (genitive singular eolais)",
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    },
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        "2": "eolais",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "eolas m (genitive singular eolais)",
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    }
  ],
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      },
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  "lang": "Irish",
  "lang_code": "ga",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "knowledge, understanding"
      ],
      "links": [
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          "knowledge",
          "knowledge"
        ],
        [
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          "understanding"
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          "english": "I am familiar with, am acquainted with, this place.",
          "text": "Tá eolas agam ar an áit seo.",
          "translation": "I am familiar with, am acquainted with, this place.",
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        }
      ],
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        "acquaintance, familiarity"
      ],
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          "acquaintance",
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        ]
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    },
    {
      "glosses": [
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        [
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          "information"
        ]
      ],
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        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈoːl̪ˠəsˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Munster"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈoːlˠəsˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Connacht"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɔːlˠəsˠ/",
      "tags": [
        "Ulster"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "sense": "knowledge",
      "topics": [
        "information"
      ],
      "word": "fios"
    }
  ],
  "word": "eolas"
}

Download raw JSONL data for eolas meaning in Irish (4.6kB)

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  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "eolas",
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  "msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'eclipsis'",
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  "section": "Irish",
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  "msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: eolas/Irish 'with t-prothesis' base_tags={'error-unrecognized-form'}",
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