gránna
See also: granna
Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish gránda (“horrible, terrible, ugly, repulsive, hateful”), from gráin f (“awfulness; loathsomeness, an object of loathing or horror; terror, horror; loathing, aversion”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
gránna
- ugly, unattractive
- unpleasing to senses; disagreeable, unsightly
- morally offensive; vile, repulsive
- horrible, terrible
- poor, wretched, unfortunate
Declension edit
Declension of gránna
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | gránna | ghránna | gránna; ghránna² | |
| Vocative | ghránna | gránna | ||
| Genitive | gránna | gránna | gránna | |
| Dative | gránna; ghránna¹ |
ghránna | gránna; ghránna² | |
| Comparative | níos gránna | |||
| Superlative | is gránna | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
- Variant comparative form: gráinne
Derived terms edit
- gránnacht f (“ugliness”)
- físghránnán m (“video nasty”)
Mutation edit
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| gránna | ghránna | ngránna |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gránna”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “gránda”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 9
