gunna

English

Etymology

Apparently due to eye dialect.

Contraction

gunna

Eye dialect spelling of gonna.
- 1915, George Bronson-Howard, God’s Man, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 132,
  “Oh, yes, I can,” answered Pink, “you’re gunna try to make me think you’re stuck on Beau. What you’re gunna give him you was [sic] saving for me. See? I’m jerry.” And he laughed at her encrimsoned face.
- a. 1972, J. R. Simplot, quoted in Neal R. Peirce, The Mountain States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Eight Rocky Mountain States, W. W. Norton & Company (1972), →ISBN, page 134,
  We have the products here, the raw materials, the know-how to do it. That’s simple, and we’re gunna do it.
- 2007, Mallory Dunn, The Letters, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 14,
  “Always, Drake. No police officer will ever hold you down.” Myrick looked around. “Man, I hate hospitals. Let’s get out of here. I’m gunna go sign that paper work.” [sic] Myrick turned towards the door as he escaped the pressing moment with his son.

Anagrams

Nunga

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish gunna, borrowed from Middle English gunne.

Pronunciation

(Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈɡʊn̪ˠə/
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɤn̪ˠə/

Noun

gunna m (genitive singular gunna, nominative plural gunnaí)

gun

Declension

Declension of gunna

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	gunna	gunnaí
Vocative	a ghunna	a ghunnaí
Genitive	gunna	gunnaí
Dative	gunna	gunnaí

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an gunna	na gunnaí
Genitive	an ghunna	na ngunnaí
Dative	leis an ngunna don ghunna	leis na gunnaí

Derived terms

aerghunna (“air gun”)
cró gunna (“bore of gun”)

deic ghunnaí (“gun deck”)
gunnadóir (“gunner”)

gunnán (“revolver”)
meaisínghunna (“machine gun”)

púdar gunna (“gunpowder”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
gunna	ghunna	ngunna
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

“gunna” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
“gunna” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
"gunna" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γούνα (goúna).

Noun

gunna f (genitive gunnae); first declension

(Late Latin) A kind of leather garment

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	gunna	gunnae
genitive	gunnae	gunnārum
dative	gunnae	gunnīs
accusative	gunnam	gunnās
ablative	gunnā	gunnīs
vocative	gunna	gunnae

Descendants

Italian: gonna
Old French: goune
- English: gown

References

gunna in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish gunna, borrowed from Middle English gunne.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɡʊ.nə/

Noun

gunna m (genitive singular gunna, plural gunnachan)

gun, musket
cannon

Derived terms

Terms derived from gunna

fùdar-gunna (“gunpowder”)
gunna barraich, gunna sgailc (“pop gun”)
gunna-bhiodaig (“gun on which to fix a bayonet”)

gunna caol (“fowling piece”)
gunna-diollaid (“holster”)
gunna fada (“middle finger”)

gunna-glaic (“fusee”)
gunna-mór (“cannon”)
gunna-spùt (“syringe”)

References

Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (John Grant, Edinburgh, 1925, Compiled by Malcolm MacLennan)
“gunna” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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