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gasta

See also: gastá

Catalan

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Verb

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gasta

  1. inflection of gastar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Galician

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gasta

  1. inflection of gastar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish gasta.[2] By surface analysis, gas (“sprig, shoot”) +‎ -ta.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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gasta

  1. fast; quick, rapid
    Synonyms: mear, tapa
  2. quick, clever

Declension

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Declension of gasta
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative gasta ghasta gasta;
ghasta2
vocative ghasta gasta
genitive gasta gasta gasta
dative gasta;
ghasta1 		ghasta gasta;
ghasta2
Comparative níos gasta
Superlative is gasta

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

  • Alternative comparative degree: gaiste

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of gasta
radical lenition eclipsis
gasta ghasta ngasta

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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  1. ^ “gasta”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gasta”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 380, page 128

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Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Participle

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gasta

  1. feminine singular of gasto

Etymology 2

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Verb

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gasta

  1. inflection of gastar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Scottish Gaelic

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish gasta.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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gasta

  1. excellent, good
    A bheil thu gu gasta? ― Are you quite well?
  2. handsome, beautiful, well-shaped, comely, fine
    a bhean ghasta ― his beautiful wife
    nì gasta ― a fine thing
    is gast' am balach thu ― you are a fine fellow
    duine gasta ― a handsome man
  3. clever, expert, ingenious, skilful
    duine gasta ― a wise and skilful man or a religious man
  4. generous, open-handed
  5. chaste
  6. gallant, brave
    • 17th c., traditional, Alasdair Mhic Cholla Ghasda:
      Alasdair Mhic, hò hò, Cholla ghasta, hò hò
      Às do làimh-sa, hò hò, dh'earbainn tapachd, trom eile
      Alasdair son of, hò hò, gallant Coll, hò hò
      From your hand, hò hò, I'd expect valour, trom eile
  7. neat

Mutation

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Mutation of gasta
radical lenition
gasta ghasta

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “gasta”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɡasta/ [ˈɡas.t̪a]
  • Rhymes: -asta
  • Syllabification: gas‧ta

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gasta

  1. inflection of gastar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Swedish

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gasta (present gastar, preterite gastade, supine gastat, imperative gasta)

  1. to shout, to bawl (shout noisily)

Conjugation

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Conjugation of gasta (weak)
Active Passive
Infinitive gasta —
Supine gastat —
Imperative gasta —
Imper. plural1 gasten —
Present Past Present Past
Indicative gastar gastade — —
Ind. plural1 gasta gastade — —
Subjunctive2 gaste gastade — —
Participles
Present participle gastande
Past participle gastad
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

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Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish gastar.

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Noun

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gastá (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜐ᜔ᜆ)

  1. spending of money
    Synonyms: gugol, gastos, paggugol, paggastos

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