gríanda

Old Irish

Etymology

From grían (“sun”) +‎ -de.

Adjective

gríanda

1. relating to the sun, solar
   • c. 850 Glosses on the Carlsruhe Beda, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 10–30, Bcr. 32^c7

     cu cenn cicuil griendi

     to the end of the solar cycle

2. sunny, brilliant

Mutation

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

References

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