grían

See also: grian

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *grēnā. Further etymology uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“to be warm, hot”).[1]

Matasović reconstructs Proto-Celtic *gʷrensnā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰrenso- (“warm”) (whence Sanskrit घ्रंस (ghraṃsa, “heat of the sun”) and Proto-Celtic *gʷrensos, whence Middle Welsh gwres (“heat (of the sun, fire)”), compare also Proto-Celtic *gʷrīns, whence derived *gʷrīnsā > grís (“heat (of the sun), fire, embers”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡʲrʲiːa̯n/

Noun

grían f

sun

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

gríanach (“sunny”)
gríanán (“bower, sunny place”)
gríanda (“relating to the sun, solar”)
gríandaide (“solar”)
gríanmar (“brilliant”)
gríanaid

Descendants

Irish: grian
Manx: grian
Scottish Gaelic: grian

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
grían	grían pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/	ngrían
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “grían”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN

Nikolaev, Alexander (Fall/Winter 2009), “The Germanic word for ‘sword’ and delocatival derivation in Proto-Indo-European”, in The Journal of Indo-European Studies‎ (PDF), volume 37, issue 3/4, archived from the original on 8 August 2014, retrieved 10 July 2016, page 478

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[1] Nikolaev, Alexander (Fall/Winter 2009), “The Germanic word for ‘sword’ and delocatival derivation in Proto-Indo-European”, in The Journal of Indo-European Studies‎ (PDF), volume 37, issue 3/4, archived from the original on 8 August 2014, retrieved 10 July 2016, page 478