gearrán

See also: gearran and Gearran

Irish

gearr (“short”) +‎ -án

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
(derogatory) lesbian, dyke

Declension of gearrán

First declension

Bare forms:

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

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.

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