garraí

Irish

Pronunciation
  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ɡɑˈɾˠiː/
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈɡaɾˠiː/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈɡaːɾˠi/[1] (as if spelled gárraí)

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish garrda, from Old Norse garðr (“enclosed space, yard”), from Proto-Germanic *gardaz (“court, yard, enclosure”), from *ǵʰortós (“enclosure”), from *ǵʰer- (“to enclose”). Doublet of gort.

Noun

garraí m (genitive singular garraí, nominative plural garraithe)

  1. garden
    • 1894 March 1, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:
      Chuaidh sé ionns’ ar an rígh ⁊ fuair sé é ar shuidheachán san gharrdha, ⁊ d’iarr sé airgiod air.
      He went unto the king, and found him seated in the garden, and he asked him for some money.
    Synonym: gairdín
  2. small (enclosed) field, plot
    Synonyms: gort, páirc
  3. yard, enclosure
  4. ring, halo
Declension
Declension of garraí

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative garraí garraithe
Vocative a gharraí a gharraithe
Genitive garraí garraithe
Dative garraí garraithe

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an garraí na garraithe
Genitive an gharraí na ngarraithe
Dative leis an ngarraí

don gharraí

 leis na garraithe
Alternative forms
Derived terms
  • biolar garraí
  • cartlainn gharraí
  • ceolaire garraí
  • damhán garraí
  • gamhain garraí
  • garraí bláthanna
  • garraí cabáiste
  • garraí cáil
  • garraí cistine
  • garraí cúil
  • garraí gabhainn
  • garraí glasraí
  • garraí luibheanna
  • garraí margaidh
  • garraí prátaí
  • garraí scóir
  • garraí tae
  • garraí tosaigh
  • garraíodóir
  • garraíodóireacht
  • leamhan tíograch garraí
  • meirse gharraí
  • seilide garraí

Noun

garraí f pl

  1. plural of garra

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

Further reading
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “garraí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • “field”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2023
  • “garden”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2023
  • “yard”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2023
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “garrda”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  • Greene, D. (1973), “The influence of Scandinavian on Irish”, in Bo Almqvist and David Greene, editors, Proceedings of the Seventh Viking Congress‎, Dundalk: Dundalgan Press, pages 75–82

References
  1. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 47
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