barántas

barántas

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish barántas (“authority, command”); synchronically, baránta (“warranty”) +‎ -as (abstract suffix).

Noun

barántas m (genitive singular barántais, nominative plural barántais)

1. warrant
2. warranty, authority

Declension

Declension of barántas

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative barántas barántais Vocative a bharántais a bharántasa Genitive barántais barántas Dative barántas barántais

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an barántas na barántais Genitive an bharántais na mbarántas Dative leis an mbarántas don bharántas leis na barántais

Derived terms

• barántas binse m (“bench warrant”)
• oifigeach barántais m (“warrant officer”)

Related terms

• baránta m (“warranty”)
• barántaigh (“warrant”, verb)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
barántas	bharántas	mbarántas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• "barántas" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “barántas” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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Middle Irish

Etymology

From baránta (“warrant, authority, guarantee”) +‎ -as.

Noun

barántas m

1. authority, command

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
barántas	barántas pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/	mbarántas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• “barántas” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.