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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish forránta; forrán (“attack, assault; violence, aggression”) + -ta.
Adjective
forránta
- Synonym of forránach (“violent, aggressive; bold, forward, assertive”)
- formidable
- Synonyms: do-iongabhála, iontach, ollmhór, scanrúil
- redoubtable
- Synonym: mórghníomhach
Derived terms
- forrántacht f (“aggressiveness; boldness, forwardness”)
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “forránach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “forránta”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language