geantraí

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish gentraige. By surface analysis, gean (“love, affection”) +‎ -traí (“type of music”).

Noun

geantraí f (genitive singular geantraí, nominative plural geantraithe)

  1. (piece of) light, joyful music
  2. (literary) comedic music

Declension

Declension of geantraí (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative geantraí geantraithe
vocative a gheantraí a gheantraithe
genitive geantraí geantraithe
dative geantraí geantraithe
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an gheantraí na geantraithe
genitive na geantraí na ngeantraithe
dative leis an ngeantraí
don gheantraí 		leis na geantraithe

Mutation

Mutated forms of geantraí
radical lenition eclipsis
geantraí gheantraí ngeantraí

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

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