garr

garr

See also: Garr

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *garrā (compare Gaulish *garra), which is of uncertain origin; possibly sharing a Pre-Greek / substrate origin with Ancient Greek ἄκαρα (ákara, “leg, shank”).[1]

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [ɡarː]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [ɡɒr]

Noun

garr f (dual diwar, plural garrow)

1. (anatomy) leg

Mutation

  Mutation of garr  

Cornish consonant mutation
unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed	mixed after 'th
garr	arr	unchanged	karr	harr	harr

References

1. Brown, Raymond (1985): Evidence for pre-Greek speech on Crete from Greek alphabetic sources, p. 296

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish garr (“ordure, offal”).

Noun

garr m (genitive singular gairr)

1. 1. pith, pulp
   2. inner substance; matter, essence
2. 1. ordure, filth
   2. garbage, offal

      Synonym: bruscar

Declension

Declension of garr

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative garr Vocative a ghairr Genitive gairr Dative garr

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an garr Genitive an ghairr Dative leis an ngarr don gharr

Derived terms

• garrfhiach (“vulture”)
• garr móna (“soft, worthless, turf”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
garr	gharr	ngarr
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “garr”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “garr”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• “pith” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

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Maltese

Root
g-r-r
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic كَرَّ‎ (karra, “make a rattling or gurgling sound”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡarr/

Verb

garr (imperfect jgorr, verbal noun garr)

1. to complain, grumble

Conjugation

Conjugation of garr
		singular				plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
perfect	m	garrejt	garrejt	garr		garrejna	garrejtu	garrew
	f			garret
imperfect	m	ngorr	tgorr	jgorr		ngorru	tgorru	jgorru
	f			tgorr
imperative			gorr				gorru

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Yola

Etymology

Possibly inherited from Middle English anger, from Old Norse angr, from Proto-Germanic *angazaz.[1]

Noun

garr

1. anger[2]

References

1. Raymond Hickey (1988), “A lost Middle English dialect”, in Jacek Fisiak, editor, Historical Dialectology: Regional and Social (Trends in linguistics: Studies and monographs; 37), De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 263
2. Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 41