garait

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French

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Verb

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garait

  1. third-person singular imperfect indicative of garer

Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *gari- (short), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (short). Related to Middle Irish gerr (short).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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garait

  1. short
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 59d6
      .i. is garait ar saigul.
      Our life is short.

Inflection

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i-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative garait garait garait
Vocative garait
Accusative garait garait
Genitive garait gairte garait
Dative garait garait garait
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative gairti gairti
Vocative gairti
Accusative gairti
Genitive garait*
gairte
Dative gairtib
Notes *not when substantivized

Synonyms

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Antonyms

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Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: gairit

Mutation

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

Further reading

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