geasa

English

Etymology

Irish geasa, the plural of both geis and geas.

Noun

geasa

1. plural of geis
2. plural of geas
3. (nonstandard) Synonym of geas or geis, mistakenly treated as a singular.
   • 1994, Desmond MacNamara, The Book of Intrusions, Dalkey Archive Press, →ISBN, page 45:

     Their physical yearning for each other was nearly as great as their union of poetry, but it was inhibited by a geasa, or taboo, that had been inflicted on Curither by an elderly aesodan, his poetic mentor during the long years of ...

   • 2011, David Gemmell, Sword in the Storm, Del Rey, →ISBN:

     [Y]ears ago I placed a geasa on a baby girl. It was that if she ever saw a three-legged fox, she should follow it. Last year she saw a fox that had three legs, and she followed her geasa. She found a young man sitting by a stream.

   • 2019, Brendan Wolfe, Wolfe's History: A Family Story, →ISBN, page 388:

     The gallant lad did that, too, and triumphed, but, as the Black Goat was passing out, he put upon the boy a geasa to tie up the Jester of the Prince of Darkness. That also the youth did, only to have another geasa put upon him.

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɟasˠə/

Noun

geasa f

1. nominative/vocative/dative plural of geis

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
geasa	gheasa	ngeasa
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Northern Sami

Pronoun

geasa

1. illative singular of gii

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

geasa f

1. genitive singular of geas