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gréas

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See also: greas

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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gréas

  1. second-person singular past historic of gréer

Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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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

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gréas m (genitive singular gréasa, nominative plural gréasa or gréasanna)

  1. ornamental work; ornament, ornamentation
  2. decorative design, pattern, figure (on cloth, etc.)
  3. needlework, embroidery
  4. (literary, artistic) composition
Declension
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Declension of gréas (third declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative gréas gréasa
vocative a ghréas a ghréasa
genitive gréasa gréas
dative gréas gréasa
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an gréas na gréasa
genitive an ghréasa na ngréas
dative leis an ngréas
don ghréas
leis na gréasa
Derived terms
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References

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  1. ^ 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

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Verb

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gréas (present analytic gréasann, future analytic gréasfaidh, verbal noun gréasadh, past participle gréasta)

  1. (transitive) Alternative form of gréasaigh (ornament, embroider; decorate with pattern)
Conjugation
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Derived terms
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  • gréasta (ornamented, embroidered, patterned, adjective)

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of gréas
radical lenition eclipsis
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.