géiss

See also: geiss, Geiss, and Geiß

Luxembourgish

géiss

inflection of géissen:
1. second-person singular present indicative
2. second-person singular imperative

géiss

géiss f (nominative plural géissi)

swan
- Glosses in Regina No. 215, 102^b, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, p. 2:
  géissi glosses coantes (in a gloss of Baruch 6:21(22), where the manuscript is faulty; the Vulgate actually has cattae (“cats”) and it isn’t clear what Latin word the Irish glossator thought this was, but he interpreted it as ‘swans’)

Feminine i-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	géiss	géiss^L	géissi^H
Vocative	géiss	géiss^L	géissi^H
Accusative	géiss^N	géiss^L	géissi^H
Genitive	gésso^H, géssa^H	gésso^H, géssa^H	géisse^N
Dative	géiss^L	géissib	géissib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
géiss	géiss pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/	ngéiss
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.