geantraí

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish gentraige. By surface analysis, gean (“love, affection”) +‎ -traí (“type of music”).

Noun

geantraí f (genitive singular geantraí, nominative plural geantraithe)

1. (piece of) light, joyful music
2. (literary) comedic music

Declension

Declension of geantraí (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative geantraí geantraithe vocative a gheantraí a gheantraithe genitive geantraí geantraithe dative geantraí geantraithe forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an gheantraí na geantraithe genitive na geantraí na ngeantraithe dative leis an ngeantraí don gheantraí leis na geantraithe

Mutation

Mutated forms of geantraí

radical	lenition	eclipsis
geantraí	gheantraí	ngeantraí

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “geantraí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN