géiss

See also: geiss, Geiss, and Geiß

Luxembourgish

Verb

géiss

1. inflection of géissen:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Old Irish

géiss

Alternative forms

• géis

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *gansis, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns (“goose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʲeːsʲ/

Noun

géiss f (nominative plural géissi)

1. swan
   • Glosses in Regina No. 215, 102^b, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, p. 2:

     géissi glosses coantes (in a gloss of Baruch 6:21(22), where the manuscript is faulty; the Vulgate actually has cattae (“cats”) and it isn’t clear what Latin word the Irish glossator thought this was, but he interpreted it as ‘swans’)

Inflection

Feminine i-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	géiss	géissL	géissiH
Vocative	géiss	géissL	géissiH
Accusative	géissN	géissL	géissiH
Genitive	géssoH, géssaH	géssoH, géssaH	géisseN
Dative	géissL	géissib	géissib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 géis”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language