gonta

Irish

Etymology 1

Verb

gonta

  1. past participle of goin (“(mortally) wound; slay; wound; stab, sting, hurt”)
Derived terms
  • éag-ghonta (“mortally wounded”, adjective)

Adjective

gonta

  1. sharp, incisive; terse, succinct; pungent (of speech, style)
  2. unsound
Derived terms
  • gontacht f (“sharpness, incisiveness; terseness, succinctness; piquancy, pungency”)

Etymology 2

Noun

gonta f pl

  1. plural of goin (“wound; stab, sting, hurt; bite”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of gonta
radical lenition eclipsis
gonta ghonta ngonta

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

References

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