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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish gentraige. By surface analysis, gean (“love, affection”) + -traí (“type of music”).
Noun
geantraí f (genitive singular geantraí, nominative plural geantraithe)
- (piece of) light, joyful music
- (literary) comedic music
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| geantraí
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gheantraí
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ngeantraí
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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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