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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)
- 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.
- small (enclosed) field, plot
- Synonyms: gort, páirc
- yard, enclosure
- ring, halo
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun
garraí f pl
- plural of garra
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| garraí
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gharraí
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ngarraí
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 121
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 121, page 47
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “garrda”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ 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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