grá

See also: gra and grå

Icelandic

Etymology

See grár.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /krauː/

Adjective

1. feminine nominative singular positive degree of grár

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Irish

Alternative forms

• grádh (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish grád, from Proto-Celtic *gʷrātus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɾˠɑː/
• IPA^(key): /ɡɾˠæː/

Noun

grá m (genitive singular as substantive grá, genitive as verbal noun gráite)

1. love (with ar + the person or thing loved)

   Tá grá agam ort.

   I love you.

2. verbal noun of gráigh

Declension

As substantive

Declension of grá

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative grá Vocative a ghrá Genitive grá Dative grá

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an grá Genitive an ghrá Dative leis an ngrá don ghrá

As verbal noun

Declension of grá

Irregular

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative grá Vocative a ghrá Genitive gráite Dative grá

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an grá Genitive an ghráite Dative leis an ngrá don ghrá

Derived terms

• féinghrá m (“self-love”)
• folaíonn grá gráin (“love is blind”)
• grá don ailp m, grá na hailpe m (“cupboard love”)
• grá mo chroí m (“my love, my darling”, literally “love of my heart”)
• grámhar (“loving, tender, affectionate; lovable, amiable”, adjective)
• i ngrá (“in love”)
• scéal grá m (“love story”)
• tá grá agam dhuit, tá grá agam ort (“I love you”)
• tírghrá m (“patriotism”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
grá	ghrá	ngrá
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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