geasa

Irish geasa, the plural of both geis and geas.

geasa

1. plural of geis
2. plural of geas
3. (nonstandard) Synonym of geas or geis, mistakenly treated as a singular.
   • 1994, Desmond MacNamara, The Book of Intrusions, Dalkey Archive Press, →ISBN, page 45:

     Their physical yearning for each other was nearly as great as their union of poetry, but it was inhibited by a geasa, or taboo, that had been inflicted on Curither by an elderly aesodan, his poetic mentor during the long years of ...

   • 2011, David Gemmell, Sword in the Storm, Del Rey, →ISBN:

     [Y]ears ago I placed a geasa on a baby girl. It was that if she ever saw a three-legged fox, she should follow it. Last year she saw a fox that had three legs, and she followed her geasa. She found a young man sitting by a stream.

   • 2019, Brendan Wolfe, Wolfe's History: A Family Story, →ISBN, page 388:

     The gallant lad did that, too, and triumphed, but, as the Black Goat was passing out, he put upon the boy a geasa to tie up the Jester of the Prince of Darkness. That also the youth did, only to have another geasa put upon him.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɟasˠə/

geasa f

1. nominative/vocative/dative plural of geis

geasa

1. illative singular of gii

geasa f

1. genitive singular of geas