gonta
Irish
Verb
gonta
- past participle of goin (“(mortally) wound; slay; wound; stab, sting, hurt”)
Derived terms
- éag-ghonta (“mortally wounded”, adjective)
Adjective
gonta
- (of speech, style) sharp, incisive; terse, succinct; pungent
- unsound
Derived terms
- gontacht f (“sharpness, incisiveness; terseness, succinctness; piquancy, pungency”)
Noun
gonta f pl
- plural of goin (“wound; stab, sting, hurt; bite”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| gonta | ghonta | ngonta |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- "gonta" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.