greas

• dreas

From Middle Irish gress.

• IPA^(key): /ɟɾʲasˠ/

greas f (genitive singular greise, nominative plural greasa)

1. amount of anything done at a time
2. spell (indefinite period of time)
3. (literary) attack, onset
4. (literary) injury

• greasáil

greas (present analytic greasann, future analytic greasfaidh, verbal noun greasadh, past participle greasta)

1. Alternative form of dreasaigh (“to incite”)

• “greas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 gres(s)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “greas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 382
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “greas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 21

• IPA^(key): /ɡræ͜ɑːs/

grēas

1. first/third-person singular preterite indicative of grēosan

From Middle Irish gressaid, from Proto-Celtic *gred-to-, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰreydʰ-, see also Lithuanian grìdyti (“to go, to wander”), Old Irish in·greinn, do·greinn (“to persecute”).

• IPA^(key): /kɾʲes̪/

greas (past ghreas, future greasaidh, verbal noun greasadh, past participle greaste)

1. to hurry (+ air + object pronoun agreeing with the subject)

   Greas ort! ― Hurry up!

• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “greas”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN