geantraí

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish gentraige. By surface analysis, gean (love, affection) +‎ -traí (type of music).

Noun

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geantraí f (genitive singular geantraí, nominative plural geantraithe)

  1. (piece of) light, joyful music
  2. (literary) comedic music

Declension

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
geantraí gheantraí ngeantraí
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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