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giota

giota

Irish

Noun

giota m ‎(genitive singular giota, nominative plural giotaí)

bit, piece

Declension

Declension of giota

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	giota	giotaí
Vocative	a ghiota	a ghiotaí
Genitive	giota	giotaí
Dative	giota	giotaí

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an giota	na giotaí
Genitive	an ghiota	na ngiotaí
Dative	leis an ngiota don ghiota	leis na giotaí

Derived terms

Terms derived from giota

giota aráin ‎(“bit of bread”)
giota beag ‎(“a little bit”)
giotachán ‎(“little fellow, youngster”)
giota curaíochta ‎(“patch of tillage”)

giota de scéal ‎(“bit, portion, of a story”)
giota grinn ‎(“bit, spell, of fun”)
giotaigh ‎(“break in bits”, transitive verb)
giota páipéir, giota de pháipéar ‎(“piece of paper”)

míle agus giota ‎(“a mile and a bit”)
ó ghiota go giota ‎(“bit by bit”)
réamhghiotán ‎(“preamble”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
giota	ghiota	ngiota
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"giota" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.