gorta

Icelandic

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔr̥ta/
  • Rhymes: -ɔr̥ta

Verb

gorta (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative gortaði, supine gortað)

  1. (intransitive) to brag

Conjugation
gorta — active voice (germynd)
infinitive
(nafnháttur)		 að gorta
supine
(sagnbót)		 gortað
present participle
(lýsingarháttur nútíðar)		 gortandi
indicative
(framsöguháttur)		 subjunctive
(viðtengingarháttur)
present
(nútíð)		 ég gorta við gortum present
(nútíð)		 ég gorti við gortum
þú gortar þið gortið þú gortir þið gortið
hann, hún, það gortar þeir, þær, þau gorta hann, hún, það gorti þeir, þær, þau gorti
past
(þátíð)		 ég gortaði við gortuðum past
(þátíð)		 ég gortaði við gortuðum
þú gortaðir þið gortuðuð þú gortaðir þið gortuðuð
hann, hún, það gortaði þeir, þær, þau gortuðu hann, hún, það gortaði þeir, þær, þau gortuðu
imperative
(boðháttur)		 gorta (þú) gortið (þið)
Forms with appended personal pronoun
gortaðu gortiði *
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

Synonyms
  • gort (“boasting, bragging”)
  • gortari (“boaster, braggart”)

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish gorte, from goirt (“starved”)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɡɔɾˠt̪ˠə/

Noun

gorta m (genitive singular gorta, nominative plural gortaí)

  1. starvation
    Synonym: ocras
  2. famine
    an Gorta Mór ― the Great Famine

Declension
Declension of gorta

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative gorta gortaí
Vocative a ghorta a ghortaí
Genitive gorta gortaí
Dative gorta gortaí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an gorta na gortaí
Genitive an ghorta na ngortaí
Dative leis an ngorta

don ghorta

 leis na gortaí

Derived terms

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
gorta ghorta ngorta
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • “gortae” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • “gorta” at the Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926 of the Royal Irish Academy.
  • “gorta” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 378.
  • "gorta" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

gorta

  1. genitive singular of gort
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