géiss

== Luxembourgish == === Verb === géiss inflection of géissen: second-person singular present indicative second-person singular imperative == Old Irish == === Alternative forms === géis === Etymology === From Proto-Celtic *gansis, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns (“goose”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɡʲeːsʲ/ === Noun === géiss f (nominative plural géissi) swan Glosses in Regina No. 215, 102b, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, p. 2: géissi glosses coantes (in a gloss of Baruch 6:21(22), where the manuscript is faulty; the Vulgate actually has cattae (“cats”) and it isn’t clear what Latin word the Irish glossator thought this was, but he interpreted it as ‘swans’) ==== Inflection ==== === Mutation === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 géis”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language