Irish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Irish goltraige. By surface analysis, gol (weeping) +‎ -traí (type of music).

Noun edit

goltraí f (genitive singular goltraí, nominative plural goltraithe)

  1. sorrowful music
  2. elegy, threnody, dirge, keen
  3. lament, lamentation

Declension edit

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
goltraí gholtraí ngoltraí
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading edit