Middle Irish

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Etymology

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Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeh₂r- (to cry, shout), the source of Old Irish do·gair (to call).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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gerán m

  1. complaint

Descendants

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  • Irish: gearán
  • Scottish Gaelic: gearan

Mutation

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Middle Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
gerán gerán
pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/
ngerán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “gearan”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN

Further reading

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Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gerán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language