garr

See also: Garr and ġarr

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *garrā (compare Gaulish *garra), which is of uncertain origin; possibly sharing a Pre-Greek / substrate origin with Ancient Greek ἄκαρα (ákara, “leg, shank”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA(key): [ɡarː]
  • (Revived Late Cornish) IPA(key): [ɡɒr]

Noun

garr f (dual diwar, plural garrow)

  1. (anatomy) leg

Mutation
  Mutation of garr  
Cornish consonant mutation
unmutatedsoftaspiratehardmixedmixed after 'th
garr arr unchanged karr harr harr

References
  1. Brown, Raymond (1985): Evidence for pre-Greek speech on Crete from Greek alphabetic sources, p. 296

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish garr (“ordure, offal”).

Pronunciation

Noun

garr m (genitive singular gairr)

  1. pulp (center of a fruit)
  2. inner substance; matter, essence
  3. ordure
  4. garbage
    Synonym: bruscar

Declension
Declension of garr

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative garr
Vocative a ghairr
Genitive gairr
Dative garr

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an garr
Genitive an ghairr
Dative leis an ngarr

don gharr

Derived terms
  • garrfhiach (“vulture”)
  • garr móna (“soft, worthless, turf”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
garr gharr ngarr
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Maltese
Root
g-r-r
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic كَرَّ (karra, “make a rattling or gurgling sound”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡarr/

Verb

garr (imperfect jgorr, verbal noun garr)

  1. to complain, grumble

Conjugation
    Conjugation of garr
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
perfect m garrejt garrejt garr garrejna garrejtu garrew
f garret
imperfect m ngorr tgorr jgorr ngorru tgorru jgorru
f tgorr
imperative gorr gorru

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English angre, from Old Norse angr, from Proto-Germanic *angazaz.[1]

Yola <g> is silent when in <-ngr->, thus initial <an-> was clipped.

Pronunciation

Noun

garr

  1. anger[2]

References
  1. Raymond Hickey (1988) “A lost Middle English dialect”, in Jacek Fisiak, editor, Historical Dialectology: Regional and Social (Trends in linguistics: Studies and monographs; 37), De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 263
  2. Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 41
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.