garait

French

Verb

garait

1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of garer

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *gari- (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“short”). Related to Middle Irish gerr (“short”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡarədʲ/

Adjective

garait

1. 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. 59^d6

     .i. is garait ar saigul.

     Our life is short.

Inflection

i-stem
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

• berr
• breib
• cummair

Antonyms

• fota

Descendants

• Middle Irish: gairit
  • Irish: gairid
  • Scottish Gaelic: goirid

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
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

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, 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