"gus" meaning in Irish

See gus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ɡusˠ/ [Connacht, Munster], /ɡɞsˠ/ [Ulster]
Etymology: From Old Irish gus, guss (“vigour”), from Proto-Celtic *gustus (“excellence, force”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwstus (“choice, taste”). Etymology templates: {{etymon|ga|:inh|sga:gus}} [Appendix:Glossary#inherited|Inherited]] from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Celtic", "term" : "*gustus", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "cel-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Old Irish", "term" : "gus", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "sga" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Irish", "term" : "gus", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ga" }" data-lang="ga" data-title="gus">, {{root|ga|ine-pro|*ǵews-}}, {{inh|ga|sga|gus}} Old Irish gus, {{ref|<span class="cited-source">Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (<span class="None" lang="und">2019), “1 gus”, in <cite>eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language</cite></span></span>}}, {{inh|ga|cel-pro|*gustus|t=excellence, force}} Proto-Celtic *gustus (“excellence, force”), {{inh|ga|ine-pro|*ǵéwstus|t=choice, taste}} Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwstus (“choice, taste”) Head templates: {{head|ga|noun|genitive singular|gusa||||||||-|||||cat2=|f1request=1|f4request=1|g=m|g2=|g3=|head=|var=}} gus m (genitive singular gusa), {{ga-noun|m|gusa|-}} gus m (genitive singular gusa) Inflection templates: {{ga-mut}} Forms: gusa [genitive, singular], no-table-tags [table-tags], an gus [definite, nominative, singular], an ghusa [definite, genitive, singular], leis an ngus [dative, definite, singular], don ghus [dative, definite, singular], no-table-tags [table-tags], gus [error-unrecognized-form], ghus [lenition], ngus [eclipsis], dos [alternative], dus [alternative]
  1. vigor, force Tags: masculine

Alternative forms

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Download raw JSONL data for gus meaning in Irish (4.1kB)

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