garraí

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ɡɑˈɾˠiː/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑɾˠiː/, /ˈɡaɾˠiː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈɡaːɾˠi/ (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

   Synonym: gairdín

   • 1894 March, 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.

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 plural: garranta (Galway)

Alternative forms

• gardha, garrdha (superseded)

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
• garraíodóir
• garraíodóireacht
• leamhan tíograch garraí
• meirse gharraí
• seilide garraí

 

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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
• “garraí”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024