grás

See also: GRAS, Gras, Graś, gras, graś, gräs, grãs, græs, and græs'

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [krauːs]
    Rhymes: -auːs

Adjective

grás

  1. masculine/neuter genitive singular positive degree of grár
    eigandi grás bíls ― the owner of a grey car

Irish

Etymology

From Middle English grace, from Old French grace, from Latin grātia (“kindness, favour, esteem”), from grātus (“pleasing”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to praise, welcome”).

Noun

grás m (genitive singular grása, nominative plural grása)

  1. (literary, theology, often in the plural) grace (free and undeserved favour)
  2. (in the vocative plural) your grace

Declension

Declension of grás (third declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative grás grása
vocative a ghrás a ghrása
genitive grása grás
dative grás grása
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an grás na grása
genitive an ghrása na ngrás
dative leis an ngrás
don ghrás 		leis na grása

Synonyms

  • (free and undeserved favour): grásta

Derived terms

  • na Grása (“the Graces”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of grás
radical lenition eclipsis
grás ghrás ngrás

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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