Irish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Irish gredan.[2]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

greadhain f (genitive singular greadhaine)

  1. din, clamour, noise
  2. (specifically) noise or shout of exultation or revelry

Declension edit

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
greadhain ghreadhain ngreadhain
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  1. ^ greadhain”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gredan”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 86, page 47

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