gonta

Irish

Etymology 1

Verb

gonta

1. past participle of goin (“(mortally) wound; slay; wound; stab, sting, hurt”)

Derived terms

• éag-ghonta (“mortally wounded”, adjective)

Adjective

gonta

1. sharp, incisive; terse, succinct; pungent (of speech, style)
2. unsound

Derived terms

• gontacht f (“sharpness, incisiveness; terseness, succinctness; piquancy, pungency”)

Etymology 2

Noun

gonta f pl

1. plural of goin (“wound; stab, sting, hurt; bite”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
gonta	ghonta	ngonta
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gonta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN