gasta

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See also: gastá

Catalan

Verb

gasta

  1. inflection of gastar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Galician

Verb

gasta

  1. inflection of gastar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish gasta. By surface analysis, gas (“sprig, shoot”) +‎ -ta.

Pronunciation

Adjective

gasta

  1. fast; quick, rapid
    Synonyms: mear, tapa
  2. quick, clever

Declension

Declension of gasta
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative gasta ghasta gasta;
ghasta2
vocative ghasta gasta
genitive gasta gasta gasta
dative gasta;
ghasta1 		ghasta gasta;
ghasta2
Comparative níos gasta
Superlative is gasta

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

  • Alternative comparative degree: gaiste

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Yola: gosther

Mutation

Mutated forms of gasta
radical lenition eclipsis
gasta ghasta ngasta

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

References

  1. ^ “gasta”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gasta”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 380, page 128

Further reading

Old English

Pronunciation

Noun

gāsta

  1. genitive plural of gāst

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

Etymology 1

Participle

gasta

  1. feminine singular of gasto

Etymology 2

Verb

gasta

  1. inflection of gastar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish gasta.

Pronunciation

Adjective

gasta

  1. excellent, good
    A bheil thu gu gasta? ― Are you quite well?
  2. handsome, beautiful, well-shaped, comely, fine
    a bhean ghasta ― his beautiful wife
    nì gasta ― a fine thing
    is gast' am balach thu ― you are a fine fellow
    duine gasta ― a handsome man
  3. clever, expert, ingenious, skilful
    duine gasta ― a wise and skilful man or a religious man
  4. generous, open-handed
  5. chaste
  6. gallant, brave
    • 17th c., traditional, Alasdair Mhic Cholla Ghasda:
      Alasdair Mhic, hò hò, Cholla ghasta, hò hò
      Às do làimh-sa, hò hò, dh'earbainn tapachd, trom eile
      Alasdair son of, hò hò, gallant Coll, hò hò
      From your hand, hò hò, I'd expect valour, trom eile
  7. neat

Mutation

Mutation of gasta
radical lenition
gasta ghasta

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

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “gasta”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan ‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡasta/
  • Rhymes: -asta
  • Syllabification: gas‧ta

Verb

gasta

  1. inflection of gastar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Swedish

Verb

gasta (present gastar, preterite gastade, supine gastat, imperative gasta)

  1. to shout, to bawl (shout noisily)

Conjugation

Conjugation of gasta (weak)
active passive
infinitive gasta —
supine gastat —
imperative gasta —
imper. plural1 gasten —
present past present past
indicative gastar gastade — —
ind. plural1 gasta gastade — —
subjunctive2 gaste gastade — —
present participle gastande
past participle gastad

1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

References

Anagrams

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish gastar.

Pronunciation

Noun

gastá (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜐ᜔ᜆ)

  1. spending of money
    Synonyms: gugol, gastos, paggugol, paggastos

Derived terms

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