From Middle Irish gasrad.[2] By surface analysis, gas (“stripling; scion”) + -ra.
gasra m (genitive singular gasra, nominative plural gasraí)
- (literary) (band of) young warriors; band of (young) men, of soldiers
- group of people; branch of organization
- (military) section
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- ^ “gasra”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gasrad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 228, page 116