gairdeas

Irish

Noun

gairdeas m (genitive singular gairdeas, nominative plural gairdis)

1. joy, gladness, rejoicing

Declension

Declension of gairdeas

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative gairdeas gairdis Vocative a ghairdis a ghairdeasa Genitive gairdis gairdeas Dative gairdeas gairdis

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an gairdeas na gairdis Genitive an ghairdis na ngairdeas Dative leis an ngairdeas don ghairdeas leis na gairdis

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
gairdeas	ghairdeas	ngairdeas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• “gairdeas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gairdeas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN