garait
French edit
Verb edit
garait
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Celtic *gari- (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“short”). Related to Middle Irish gerr (“short”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
garait
- short
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 59d6
- .i. is garait ar saigul.
- Our life is short.
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 59d6
Inflection edit
i-stem | |||
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Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | garait | garait | garait |
Vocative | garait | ||
Accusative | garait | garait | |
Genitive | garait | gairte | garait |
Dative | garait | garait | garait |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
Nominative | gairti | gairti | |
Vocative | gairti | ||
Accusative | gairti | ||
Genitive | garait* gairte | ||
Dative | gairtib | ||
Notes | *not when substantivized |
Synonyms edit
Antonyms edit
Descendants edit
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
garait | garait pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/ |
ngarait |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “garit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “garait”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page gairid