gaiste

Irish

Alternative forms

  • gaisde, guiste (obsolete)[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡaʃtʲə/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈɡæʃtʲə/[2]

Etymology 1

From Old Irish goiste.[3]

Noun

gaiste m (genitive singular gaiste, nominative plural gaistí)

  1. noose, snare, trap
    Synonyms: dol, súil ribe
  2. (figurative) pitfall
Declension
Declension of gaiste (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative gaiste gaistí
vocative a ghaiste a ghaistí
genitive gaiste gaistí
dative gaiste gaistí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an gaiste na gaistí
genitive an ghaiste na ngaistí
dative leis an ngaiste
don ghaiste 		leis na gaistí
Derived terms
  • gaistigh (“trap, ensnare”)

Etymology 2

Adjective

gaiste

  1. (nonstandard) comparative degree of gasta

Mutation

Mutated forms of gaiste
radical lenition eclipsis
gaiste ghaiste ngaiste

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ “gaiste”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 353, page 121
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 goiste”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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