Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish gasrad.[2] By surface analysis, gas (stripling; scion) +‎ -ra.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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gasra m (genitive singular gasra, nominative plural gasraí)

  1. (literary) (band of) young warriors; band of (young) men, of soldiers
  2. group of people; branch of organization
  3. (military) section

Declension

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
gasra ghasra ngasra
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ gasra”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gasrad”, 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, § 228, page 116

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