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geasa

geasa is the plural of geis.

geasa is the plural of geas.

Meaning of geis

Noun

geis (plural geises or geasa)

  1. Synonym of geas (“a mystical injunction: a prohibition, or obligation/compulsion”).
    • [In] 36a we read that there was (19) a geis upon ships to leave the 'port' of Athens till someone had defeated Atalanta in a running race. The nature and function of the geis that lay upon objects appears to better advantage, however, in one of the stories about Ailill Dock-Ear.1933, John Revell Reinhard, The Survival of Geis in Mediaeval Romance, page 58
    Synonyms:
    geas

Meaning of geas

Noun

geas (plural geasa or geases)

  1. A (generally magical) vow, obligation or injunction placed upon someone to do or not do something, which typically brings harm if violated and blessings if obeyed.
    • It can send us where it will with a task laid upon us—a geas, if you like.1989, Roger Zelazny, Knight of Shadows
  2. A mystical compulsion.
    • The memory came upon him like a geas, overwhelming his revulsion, numbing his heart.1980, Stephen R. Donaldson, The Wounded Land, page 162

Noun

geasa (plural geasa)

  1. (nonstandard) Synonym of geas or geis, mistakenly treated as a singular.
    • 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 ...1994, Desmond MacNamara, The Book of Intrusions, Dalkey Archive Press, →ISBN, page 45
    • [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.2011, David Gemmell, Sword in the Storm, Del Rey, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    geas or geis, mistakenly treated as a singular

Synonyms of geasa

  • geas or geis
  • mistakenly treated as a singular

Forms of geasa

pluralgeasa

Origin of geasa

Irish geasa, the plural of both geis and geas.

Questions about geasa

What does geasa mean?
Geasa means synonym of geas or geis, mistakenly treated as a singular.
What is geasa the plural of?
Geasa is the plural of geis.
What part of speech is geasa?
Geasa is a noun.
What is the plural of geasa?
The plural of geasa is geasa.

Words near geasa in the dictionary

  1. Geary
  2. Geary County
  3. Gearys
  4. Gearys Flat
  5. geas
  6. geasa
  7. gease
  8. geases
  9. Geashill
  10. geason
  11. geat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: geasa (page history and authors); geis (page history and authors); geas (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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