géiss

See also: geiss, Geiss, and Geiß

Luxembourgish

géiss

géiss f (nominative plural géissi)

swan
- Glosses in Regina No. 215, 102^b, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, p. 2:
  géissi glosses coantes (in a gloss of Baruch 6:21(22), where the manuscript is faulty; the Vulgate actually has cattae (“cats”) and it isn’t clear what Latin word the Irish glossator thought this was, but he interpreted it as ‘swans’)

Feminine i-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	géiss	géiss^L	géissi^H
Vocative	géiss	géiss^L	géissi^H
Accusative	géiss^N	géiss^L	géissi^H
Genitive	gésso^H, géssa^H	gésso^H, géssa^H	géisse^N
Dative	géiss^L	géissib	géissib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation of *géiss*
radical	lenition	nasalization
géiss	géiss pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/	ngéiss

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.