gunna

English

Etymology

Apparently due to eye dialect.

Contraction

gunna

  1. 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

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish gunna, borrowed from Middle English gunne.

Pronunciation

Noun

gunna m (genitive singular gunna, nominative plural gunnaí)

  1. 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

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

  1. (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

References

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)

  1. gun, musket
  2. cannon

Derived terms
  • 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”)

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalLenition
gunnaghunna
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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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