garraí

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑˈɾˠiː/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɾˠiː/
• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaɾˠi/

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish garrda, from Old Norse garðr (“enclosed space, yard”), from Proto-Germanic *gardaz (“court, yard, enclosure”), from *ǵʰortós (“enclosure”), from *ǵʰer- (“to enclose”).

Noun

garraí m (genitive singular garraí, nominative plural garraithe)

1. garden

   Synonym: gairdín

2. small (enclosed) field, plot

   Synonyms: gort, páirc

3. yard, enclosure
4. ring, halo

Declension

Declension of garraí

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative garraí garraithe Vocative a gharraí a gharraithe Genitive garraí garraithe Dative garraí garraithe

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an garraí na garraithe Genitive an gharraí na ngarraithe Dative leis an ngarraí don gharraí leis na garraithe

• Alternative plural: garranta (Cois Fharraige)

Alternative forms

• garrdha (superseded)

Derived terms

• biolar garraí (“garden cress”)
• cartlainn gharraí (“spearmint”)
• ceolaire garraí (“garden warbler”)
• damhán garraí (“garden spider”)
• gamhain garraí (“pet calf”)
• garraí bláthanna (“flower-garden”)
• garraí cabáiste, garraí cáil (“cabbage garden”)
• garraí cistine (“kitchen garden”)
• garraí cúil (“back garden”)
• garraí gabhainn (“(cattle-)pound”)
• garraí glasraí (“vegetable garden”)
• garraí luibheanna (“herb garden”)
• garraí margaidh (“market garden”)
• garraí prátaí (“potato patch”)
• garraí scóir (“allotment”)
• garraí tae (“tea garden”)
• garraí tosaigh (“front garden”)
• garraíodóir (“gardener”)
• leamhan tíograch garraí (“garden tiger moth”)
• meirse gharraí (“garden celery”)
• seilide garraí (“garden snail”)

 

Related terms

• garraíodóireacht f (“(act of) gardening”)

Etymology 2

Noun

garraí f pl

1. plural of garra

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
garraí	gharraí	ngarraí
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “garraí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “field”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• “garden”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• “yard”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• 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. 1973 ‘The influence of Scandinavian on Irish’ in Bo Almqvist & David Greene (eds.) Proceedings of the Seventh Viking Congress, Dundalgan Press, Dundalk, pp. 75-82