gránna

See also: granna

Irish

Alternative forms

• gránda (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish gránda (“horrible, terrible, ugly, repulsive, hateful”), from gráin f (“awfulness; loathsomeness, an object of loathing or horror; terror, horror; loathing, aversion”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾˠɑːn̪ˠə/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɾˠaːn̪ˠə/

Adjective

gránna

1. ugly, unattractive
   1. unpleasing to senses; disagreeable, unsightly
   2. morally offensive; vile, repulsive
   3. horrible, terrible
2. poor, wretched, unfortunate

Declension

Declension of gránna

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	gránna	ghránna	gránna; ghránna²
Vocative	ghránna		gránna
Genitive		gránna	gránna	gránna
Dative	gránna; ghránna¹	ghránna	gránna; ghránna²
Comparative	níos gránna
Superlative	is gránna

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

• Variant comparative form: gráinne

Derived terms

• gránnacht f (“ugliness”)
• físghránnán m (“video nasty”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
gránna	ghránna	ngránna
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gránna”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “gránda”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 9