gonta

Irish

Etymology 1

Verb

gonta

  1. past participle of goin (“(mortally) wound; slay; wound; stab, sting, hurt”)
Derived terms
  • éag-ghonta (“mortally wounded”, adjective)

Adjective

gonta

  1. (of speech, style) sharp, incisive; terse, succinct; pungent
  2. unsound
Derived terms
  • gontacht f (“sharpness, incisiveness; terseness, succinctness; piquancy, pungency”)

Etymology 2

Noun

gonta f pl

  1. plural of goin (“wound; stab, sting, hurt; bite”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
gonta ghonta ngonta
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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