gunna

English

Contraction

gunna

  1. Alternative spelling of gonna
    • 1915, George Bronson-Howard, God’s Man, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 132,
      “Oh, yes, I can,” answered Pink, “you’re gunna try to make me think you’re stuck on Beau. What you’re gunna give him you was [sic] saving for me. See? I’m jerry.” And he laughed at her encrimsoned face.
    • a. 1972, J. R. Simplot, quoted in Neal R. Peirce, The Mountain States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Eight Rocky Mountain States, W. W. Norton & Company (1972), →ISBN, page 134,
      We have the products here, the raw materials, the know-how to do it. That’s simple, and we’re gunna do it.
    • 2007, Mallory Dunn, The Letters, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 14,
      “Always, Drake. No police officer will ever hold you down.” Myrick looked around. “Man, I hate hospitals. Let’s get out of here. I’m gunna go sign that paper work.” [sic] Myrick turned towards the door as he escaped the pressing moment with his son.

Anagrams

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish gunna,[1] from Middle English gunne.

Pronunciation

Noun

gunna m (genitive singular gunna, nominative plural gunnaí)

  1. gun

Declension
Declension of gunna

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative gunna gunnaí
Vocative a ghunna a ghunnaí
Genitive gunna gunnaí
Dative gunna gunnaí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an gunna na gunnaí
Genitive an ghunna na ngunnaí
Dative leis an ngunna

don ghunna

 leis na gunnaí

Derived terms

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

References
  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “gunna”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 67

Further reading

Latin

Etymology

Unknown. Possibly from Byzantine Greek γούνα (goúna), from an unknown Alpine or Balkan language.[1] See Bulgarian гуна (guna) for more.

According to another theory, borrowed from Celtic.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

gunna f (genitive gunnae); first declension

  1. (Late Latin) a kind of leather garment

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative gunna gunnae
Genitive gunnae gunnārum
Dative gunnae gunnīs
Accusative gunnam gunnās
Ablative gunnā gunnīs
Vocative gunna gunnae

Descendants
  • Italian: gonna
  • Old French: goune (see there for further descendants)
  • → Basque: gona

References
  1. Klein, Dr. Ernest, A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific Publishing Co., 1971.
  2. Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish gunna,[1] from Middle English gunne.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkun̪ˠə/

Noun

gunna m (genitive singular gunna, plural gunnachan)

  1. gun, musket
  2. cannon

Derived terms
  • fùdar-gunna (“gunpowder”)
  • gunna barraich (“pop gun”)
  • gunna caol (“fowling piece”)
  • gunna fada (“middle finger”)
  • gunna sgailc (“pop gun”)
  • gunna-bhiodaig (“gun on which to fix a bayonet”)
  • gunna-diollaid (“holster”)
  • gunna-glaic (“fusee”)
  • gunna-mór (“cannon”)
  • gunna-spùt (“syringe”)

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
gunnaghunna
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “gunna”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “gunna”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC
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