garait
French
Verb
garait
- third-person singular imperfect indicative of garer
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *gari- (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“short”). Related to Middle Irish gerr (“short”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡarədʲ/
Adjective
garait
- short
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 59d6
- .i. is garait ar saigul.
- Our life is short.
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 59d6
Inflection
| singular | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | garait | garait | garait |
| vocative | garait | ||
| accusative | garait | garait | |
| genitive | garait | gairte | garait |
| dative | garait | garait | garait |
| plural | masculine | feminine/neuter | |
| nominative | gairti | gairti | |
| vocative | gairti | ||
| accusative | gairti | ||
| genitive | garait* gairte | ||
| dative | gairtib | ||
*not when substantivized
Synonyms
Antonyms
Descendants
Mutation
| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| garait | garait pronounced with /ɣ-/ |
ngarait |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “garit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “garait”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page gairid