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gearán

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See also: gearan

Irish

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish gerán.[1] Cognate with Scottish Gaelic gearan.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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gearán m (genitive singular gearáin, nominative plural gearáin or gearánta)

  1. verbal noun of gearán
  2. complaint, grievance
    An té nach trua leis do chás ná déan do ghearán leis. (proverb)
    Do not look for sympathy where there is none.
    (literally, “Whoever does not have pity with your concern, do not make your complaint to him.”)
  3. accusation
  4. ailment

Declension

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Declension of gearán (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative gearán géaráin
vocative a ghéaráin a ghearána
genitive géaráin gearán
dative gearán géaráin
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an gearán na géaráin
genitive an ghéaráin na ngearán
dative leis an ngearán
don ghearán
leis na géaráin

Verb

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gearán (present analytic gearánann, future analytic gearánfaidh, verbal noun gearán, past participle gearánta)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) complain

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of gearán
radical lenition eclipsis
gearán ghearán ngearán

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

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gerán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 235, page 119

Further reading

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