gránna

See also: granna

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish gránda (“ugly”), from gráin f (“awfulness”).[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

gránna (comparative gránna or gráinne)

  1. ugly, unattractive, unsightly
  2. unpleasant, disagreeable
  3. offensive, vile, repulsive
  4. horrible, terrible

Declension

Declension of gránna
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative gránna ghránna gránna;
ghránna2
vocative ghránna gránna
genitive gránna gránna gránna
dative gránna;
ghránna1 		ghránna gránna;
ghránna2
Comparative níos gránna
Superlative is gránna

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of gránna
radical lenition eclipsis
gránna ghránna ngránna

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gránda”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 130
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 15, page 9

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