gorta

Icelandic

Etymology

Earliest attested in 1800's.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔr̥ta/
  • Rhymes: -ɔr̥ta

Verb

gorta (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative gortaði, supine gortað)

  1. (intransitive) to brag
    Synonyms: grobba, raupa, monta, skruma

Conjugation

gorta – active voice (germynd)
infinitive nafnháttur að gorta
supine sagnbót gortað
present participle
lýsingarháttur nútíðar
 gortandi
indicative
framsöguháttur
 subjunctive
viðtengingarháttur
present
nútíð
 past
þátíð
 present
nútíð
 past
þátíð
singular ég gorta gortaði gorti gortaði
þú gortar gortaðir gortir gortaðir
hann, hún, það gortar gortaði gorti gortaði
plural við gortum gortuðum gortum gortuðum
þið gortið gortuðuð gortið gortuðuð
þeir, þær, þau gorta gortuðu gorti gortuðu
imperative boðháttur
singular þú gorta (þú), gortaðu
plural þið gortið (þið), gortiði1
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
  • gort (“boasting, bragging”)
  • gortari (“boaster, braggart”)

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish gorte, from goirt (“starved”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡoɾˠt̪ˠə/

Noun

gorta m (genitive singular gorta, nominative plural gortaí)

  1. starvation
    Synonym: ocras
  2. famine
    an Gorta Mór ― the Great Famine

Declension

Declension of gorta (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative gorta gortaí
vocative a ghorta a ghortaí
genitive gorta gortaí
dative gorta gortaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an gorta na gortaí
genitive an ghorta na ngortaí
dative leis an ngorta
don ghorta 		leis na gortaí

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of gorta
radical lenition eclipsis
gorta ghorta ngorta

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gortae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

  • “gorta”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “gorta”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 378
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gorta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

gorta

  1. genitive singular of gort
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