de ghréas

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish do grés (“always, perpetually, continually”), from grés (“continuance, practice”).

Phrase

de ghréas

1. (literary) habitually, continually, perpetually

Related terms

• gréasach (“habitual, continual, perpetual”, adjective)

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gréas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 grés”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language