garait
French
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *gari- (“short”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“short”). Related to Middle Irish gerr (“short”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡarədʲ/
Adjective
garait
- short
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 59d6
- .i. is garait ar saigul.
- Our life is short.
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 59d6
Inflection
| i-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | garait | garait | garait |
| Vocative | garait | ||
| Accusative | garait | garait | |
| Genitive | garait | gairte | garait |
| Dative | garait | garait | garait |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
| Nominative | gairti | gairti | |
| Vocative | gairti | ||
| Accusative | gairti | ||
| Genitive | garait* gairte | ||
| Dative | gairtib | ||
| Notes | *not when substantivized | ||
Antonyms
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| garait | garait pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/ |
ngarait |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “garit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “garait”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page gairid
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