gentraige

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• gentraiges

Etymology

gen (“laugh, sport, levity”) +‎ -traige

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡʲen͈trɨɡʲe]

Noun

gentraige f

1. laughter-inducing strain of music

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	gentraigeL	—	—
vocative	gentraigeL	—	—
accusative	gentraigiN	—	—
genitive	gentraige	—	—
dative	gentraigiL	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: geantraí

Mutation

Mutation of gentraige

radical	lenition	nasalization
gentraige	gentraige pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/	ngentraige

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

Further reading

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