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Icelandic
Pronunciation
Adjective
grás
- masculine/neuter genitive singular positive degree of grár
- eigandi grás bíls ― the owner of a grey car
Irish
Etymology
From Middle English grace, from Old French grace, from Latin grātia (“kindness, favour, esteem”), from grātus (“pleasing”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to praise, welcome”).
Noun
grás m (genitive singular grása, nominative plural grása)
- (literary, theology, often in the plural) grace (free and undeserved favour)
- (in the vocative plural) your grace
Declension
Synonyms
- (free and undeserved favour): grásta
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| grás
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ghrás
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ngrás
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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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Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “grás”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “grás”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 381
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “grás”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN