gentraige

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• gentraiges

Etymology

gen (“laugh, sport, levity”) +‎ -traige

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡʲen͈trɨɡʲe]

Noun

gentraige f

1. laughter-inducing strain of music

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	gentraigeL	—	—
Vocative	gentraigeL	—	—
Accusative	gentraigiN	—	—
Genitive	gentraige	—	—
Dative	gentraigiL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: geantraí

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
gentraige	gentraige pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/	ngentraige
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), “gentraige”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language