garraí

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Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish garrda,[3] from Old Norse garðr (“enclosed space, yard”),[4] from Proto-Germanic *gardaz (“court, yard, enclosure”), from *ǵʰortós (“enclosure”), from *ǵʰer- (“to enclose”). Doublet of gort.

Noun

garraí m (genitive singular garraí, nominative plural garraithe)

  1. garden
    Synonym: gairdín
    • 1894 March, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:
      Chuaidh sé ionns’ ar an rígh ⁊ fuair sé é ar shuidheachán san gharrdha, ⁊ d’iarr sé airgiod air.
      He went unto the king, and found him seated in the garden, and he asked him for some money.
  2. small (enclosed) field, plot
    Synonyms: gort, páirc
  3. yard, enclosure
  4. ring, halo
Declension
Declension of garraí (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative garraí garraithe
vocative a gharraí a gharraithe
genitive garraí garraithe
dative garraí garraithe
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an garraí na garraithe
genitive an gharraí na ngarraithe
dative leis an ngarraí
don gharraí 		leis na garraithe
Alternative forms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

garraí f pl

  1. plural of garra

Mutation

Mutated forms of garraí
radical lenition eclipsis
garraí gharraí ngarraí

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

References

  1. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 121
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 121, page 47
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “garrda”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Greene, D. (1973) “The influence of Scandinavian on Irish”, in Bo Almqvist and David Greene, editors, Proceedings of the Seventh Viking Congress‎, Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, pages 75–82

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