gránna
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See also: granna
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Adjective
[edit]gránna
- ugly, unattractive
- unpleasing to senses; disagreeable, unsightly
- morally offensive; vile, repulsive
- horrible, terrible
- poor, wretched, unfortunate
Declension
[edit]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
[edit]- gránnacht f (“ugliness”)
- físghránnán m (“video nasty”)
Mutation
[edit]| 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
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gránna”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gránda”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 9
