gentraige

Old Irish

Alternative forms

gentraiges

Etymology

gen (“laugh, sport, levity”) +‎ -traige

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈɡʲen͈trɨɡʲe]

Noun

gentraige f

laughter-inducing strain of music

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	gentraige^L	—	—
vocative	gentraige^L	—	—
accusative	gentraigi^N	—	—
genitive	gentraige	—	—
dative	gentraigi^L	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Irish: geantraí

Mutation

Mutation of *gentraige*
radical	lenition	nasalization
gentraige	gentraige pronounced with /ɣʲ-/	ngentraige

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), “gentraige”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language