gasra

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish gasrad.[2] By surface analysis, gas (“stripling; scion”) +‎ -ra.

Pronunciation

Noun

gasra m (genitive singular gasra, nominative plural gasraí)

  1. (literary) (band of) young warriors; band of (young) men, of soldiers
  2. group of people; branch of organization
  3. (military) section

Declension

Declension of gasra (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative gasra gasraí
vocative a ghasra a ghasraí
genitive gasra gasraí
dative gasra gasraí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an gasra na gasraí
genitive an ghasra na ngasraí
dative leis an ngasra
don ghasra 		leis na gasraí

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of gasra
radical lenition eclipsis
gasra ghasra ngasra

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

References

  1. ^ “gasra”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gasrad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 228, page 116

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