gréas
Appearance
See also: greas
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɡʁe.a/ ~ /ɡʁe.ɑ/
- Homophones: gréa, gréât
Verb
[edit]gréas
- second-person singular past historic of gréer
Irish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Irish grés (“handicraft”), possibly from Proto-Celtic *gʷrensu-, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“to be warm”). The sense evolution would have been from "heat" to "zeal" and finally to "work."[1]
Noun
[edit]gréas m (genitive singular gréasa, nominative plural gréasa or gréasanna)
- ornamental work; ornament, ornamentation
- decorative design, pattern, figure (on cloth, etc.)
- needlework, embroidery
- (literary, artistic) composition
Declension
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- Variant plural: gréasanna
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*gʷrīns-/*gʷrenso-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 147
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]gréas (present analytic gréasann, future analytic gréasfaidh, verbal noun gréasadh, past participle gréasta)
- (transitive) Alternative form of gréasaigh (“ornament, embroider; decorate with pattern”)
Conjugation
[edit]conjugation of gréas (first conjugation – A)
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Derived terms
[edit]- gréasta (“ornamented, embroidered, patterned”, adjective)
References
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gréas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 grés”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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gréas | ghréas | ngréas |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
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