garraí

Irish

From Middle Irish garrda,^[3] from Old Norse garðr (“enclosed space, yard”),^[4] from Proto-Germanic *gardaz (“court, yard, enclosure”), from *ǵʰortós (“enclosure”), from *ǵʰer- (“to enclose”). Doublet of gort.

garraí m (genitive singular garraí, nominative plural garraithe)

garden
Synonym: gairdín
- 1894 March, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:
  Chuaidh sé ionns’ ar an rígh ⁊ fuair sé é ar shuidheachán san gharrdha, ⁊ d’iarr sé airgiod air.
  He went unto the king, and found him seated in the garden, and he asked him for some money.
small (enclosed) field, plot
Synonyms: gort, páirc
yard, enclosure
ring, halo

Declension of garraí (fourth declension)

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an garraí	na garraithe
genitive	an gharraí	na ngarraithe
dative	leis an ngarraí don gharraí	leis na garraithe

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

garraí f pl

Mutated forms of *garraí*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
garraí	gharraí	ngarraí

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

^ Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 121
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 121, page 47
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “garrda”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Greene, D. (1976), “The influence of Scandinavian on Irish”, in Bo Almqvist and David Greene, editors, Proceedings of the Seventh Viking Congress, Dublin 15–21 August 1973, Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, pages 75–82