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gearrán

gearrán

See also: gearran and Gearran

Irish

Noun

gearrán m ‎(genitive singular gearráin, nominative plural gearráin)

gelding
- 1906, E. C. Quiggin, “Áindrías an Ime”, in A Dialect of Donegal: Being the Speech of Meenawannia in the Parish of Glenties, page 196:
  
  Seachtmhain roimhe Shamhain chuaidh an Seónstanach siar ⁊ seacht ngearráin ⁊ péire cliabh air ghach gearrán fá choinne a chuid ime.
  A week before Samhain, Johnstone went back with seven geldings and a pair of panniers on each gelding for his butter.
garron
(pejorative) lesbian, dyke

Declension

Declension of gearrán

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	gearrán	gearráin
Vocative	a ghearráin	a ghearrána
Genitive	gearráin	gearrán
Dative	gearrán	gearráin

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an gearrán	na gearráin
Genitive	an ghearráin	na ngearrán
Dative	leis an ngearrán don ghearrán	leis na gearráin

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
gearrán	ghearrán	ngearrán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.