gunna

English

Contraction

gunna

1. Alternative spelling of gonna
   • 1915, George Bronson-Howard, God’s Man,^[1] 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,^[2] 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,^[3] 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, from Middle English gunne.

Pronunciation

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

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

• 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.

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “gunna”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 388
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gunna”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Latin

Alternative forms

• guna, gonna, gouna (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *guna, *guňa (“coarse fur garment”), likely through Byzantine Greek γούνα (goúna), γούννα (goúnna) if not vice versa.

Pronunciation

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈɡun.na/, [ˈɡunːä]

Noun

gunna f (genitive gunnae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) a kind of leather garment

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	gunna	gunnae
genitive	gunnae	gunnārum
dative	gunnae	gunnīs
accusative	gunnam	gunnās
ablative	gunnā	gunnīs
vocative	gunna	gunnae

Related terms

• gunella, gonella, gonellus

Descendants

• Italian: gonna
• Old French: goune
  • French: gonne
  • → Middle English: gowne
    • English: gown (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: goun
    • → Middle Welsh: gŵn
      • Welsh: gŵn
  • → Middle Irish: gúna
    • Irish: gúna
    • Manx: gooyn
    • Scottish Gaelic: gùn
• → Basque: gona

References

• gunna in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “3919. gŭnna”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 292a
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “gŭnna”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 325

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish gunna, from Middle English gunne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkun̪ˠə/
• (Lewis) IPA^(key): [ˈkʊ̃n̪ˠə]

Noun

gunna m (genitive singular gunna, plural gunnachan)

1. gun, musket
2. cannon

Derived terms

• fùdar-gunna (“gunpowder”)
• gunna barraich (“pop gun”)
• gunna caol (“fowling piece”)
• gunna fada (“middle finger”)
• gunna sgailc (“pop gun”)
• gunna-bhiodaig (“gun on which to fix a bayonet”)
• gunna-diollaid (“holster”)
• gunna-glaic (“fusee”)
• gunna-mòr (“cannon”)
• gunna-spùt (“syringe”)

 

Mutation

Mutation of gunna

radical	lenition
gunna	ghunna

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

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “gunna”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan‎^[4], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• MacLennan, Malcolm (1925) A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Edinburgh: J. Grant, →OCLC