gréas

== French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɡʁe.a/ ~ /ɡʁe.ɑ/ Homophones: gréa, gréât === Verb === gréas second-person singular past historic of gréer == Irish == === Pronunciation === (Munster) IPA(key): /ɟɾiasˠ/ (Connacht, Ulster) IPA(key): /ɟɾeːsˠ/ === Etymology 1 === From Old Irish grés (“handicraft”), possibly from Proto-Celtic *gʷrensu-, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“to be warm”). The sense evolution would have been from "heat" to "zeal" and finally to "work." ==== Noun ==== gréas m (genitive singular gréasa, nominative plural gréasa or gréasanna) ornamental work; ornament, ornamentation decorative design, pattern, figure (on cloth, etc.) needlework, embroidery (literary, artistic) composition ===== Declension ===== Variant plural: gréasanna ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ==== References ==== === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== gréas (present analytic gréasann, future analytic gréasfaidh, verbal noun gréasadh, past participle gréasta) (transitive) alternative form of gréasaigh (“ornament, embroider; decorate with pattern”) ===== Conjugation ===== ===== Derived terms ===== gréasta (“ornamented, embroidered, patterned”, adjective) ==== References ==== Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “gréas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 grés”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language === Mutation ===