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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish do grés (“always, perpetually, continually”), from grés (“continuance, practice”) (see greas (“indefinite period of time”)).
Phrase
de ghréas
- (literary) habitually, continually, perpetually
- gréasach (“habitual, continual, perpetual”, adjective)
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gréas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 grés”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language