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géaraigh
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Irish
Alternative forms
- géaruigh, geuraigh, geuruigh (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle Irish géraigid. By surface analysis, géar + -igh.
Pronunciation
Verb
géaraigh (present analytic géaraíonn, future analytic géaróidh, verbal noun géarú, past participle géaraithe)
- (ambitransitive) to sharpen
- Synonym: faobhraigh
- (transitive) to whet (one or rub on with some substance for the purpose of sharpening; stimulate or make more keen)
- (ambitransitive) to intensify
- (ambitransitive) to sour (to make/become sour)
- (intransitive) to quicken (become quicker)
- (transitive) to steepen (make steeper)
- to bring out (elicit, evoke, or emphasize a particular quality)
- to exacerbate (make worse)
Conjugation
conjugation of géaraigh (second conjugation)
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- “géaraigh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “géraigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “géaruiġim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 358
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “géaraigh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 50
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