geantraí

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish gentraige. By surface analysis, gean (“love, affection”) +‎ -traí (“type of music”).

Noun

geantraí f (genitive singular geantraí, nominative plural geantraithe)

  1. (piece of) light, joyful music
  2. (literary) comedic music

Declension
Declension of geantraí

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative geantraí geantraithe
Vocative a gheantraí a gheantraithe
Genitive geantraí geantraithe
Dative geantraí geantraithe

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an gheantraí na geantraithe
Genitive na geantraí na ngeantraithe
Dative leis an ngeantraí

don gheantraí

 leis na geantraithe

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
geantraí gheantraí ngeantraí
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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