gairid

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish garait.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɾʲədʲ/

Adjective

gairid (genitive singular masculine gairid, genitive singular feminine gairide, plural gairide, comparative gairide)

1. short (having a small distance between ends or edges; having little duration)

Declension

Declension of gairid

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	gairid	ghairid	gairide; ghairide²
Vocative	ghairid		gairide
Genitive		gairide	gairide	gairid
Dative	gairid; ghairid¹	ghairid	gairide; ghairide²
Comparative	níos gairide
Superlative	is gairide

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

Synonyms

• gearr

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
gairid	ghairid	ngairid
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *garyeti, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeh₂r-; cognate with Latin garriō (“chatter”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡarʲiðʲ/

Verb

gairid

1. to call
2. to cry out
3. to summon
4. to name

Inflection

Simple, class B II present, t preterite, é future, a subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Abs.	gairu
	Conj.
	Rel.
Imperfect indicative
Preterite	Abs.
	Conj.			·gart
	Rel.
Perfect	Deut.			ro·gart
	Prot.
Future	Abs.
	Conj.
	Rel.
Conditional
Present subjunctive	Abs.
	Conj.
	Rel.
Past subjunctive
Imperative
Verbal noun
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• ad·gair
• ar·focair
• ar·gair
• as·congair
• con·gair
• do·acair
• do·arngair
• do·gair
• do·imgair
• do·ingair
• for·congair
• for·dingair
• fo·úacair
• fris·gair
• imm·freccair

 

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
gairid	gairid pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/	ngairid
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gairid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language