geasa
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Irish geasa, the plural of both geis and geas.
Noun[edit]
geasa
- plural of geis
- plural of geas
- (nonstandard) Synonym of geas or geis, mistakenly treated as a singular.
- 1994, Desmond MacNamara, The Book of Intrusions, Dalkey Archive Press, →ISBN, page 45:
- Their physical yearning for each other was nearly as great as their union of poetry, but it was inhibited by a geasa, or taboo, that had been inflicted on Curither by an elderly aesodan, his poetic mentor during the long years of ...
- 2011, David Gemmell, Sword in the Storm, Del Rey, →ISBN:
- [Y]ears ago I placed a geasa on a baby girl. It was that if she ever saw a three-legged fox, she should follow it. Last year she saw a fox that had three legs, and she followed her geasa. She found a young man sitting by a stream.
- 2019, Brendan Wolfe, Wolfe's History: A Family Story, →ISBN, page 388:
- The gallant lad did that, too, and triumphed, but, as the Black Goat was passing out, he put upon the boy a geasa to tie up the Jester of the Prince of Darkness. That also the youth did, only to have another geasa put upon him.
Irish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
geasa f
Mutation[edit]
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| geasa | gheasa | ngeasa |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Northern Sami[edit]
Pronoun[edit]
geasa
Scottish Gaelic[edit]
Noun[edit]
geasa f
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