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gonta

gonta

Irish

Verb

gonta

  1. past participle of goin ((mortally) wound; slay; wound; stab, sting, hurt)
Derived terms
  • éag-ghonta (mortally wounded, adjective)

Adjective

gonta

  1. (of speech, style) sharp, incisive; terse, succinct; pungent
  2. unsound
Derived terms
  • gontacht f (sharpness, incisiveness; terseness, succinctness; piquancy, pungency)

Etymology 2

Noun

gonta f pl

  1. 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.

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