# gunna
## English
### Contraction

gunna
* Alternative 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

* Nunga

## Irish
### Etymology

From Middle Irish gunna, from Middle English gunne.

### Pronunciation

* (Munster, Connacht) IPA: /ˈɡʊn̪ˠə/
* (Ulster) IPA: /ˈɡɤn̪ˠə/

### Noun

gunna m (genitive singular gunna, nominative plural gunnaí)
* gun

#### 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

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

### References

* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gunna”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 67

### 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: /ˈɡun.na/, [ˈɡunːä]

### Noun

gunna f (genitive gunnae); first declension
* (Late Latin) a kind of leather garment

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### 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: /ˈkun̪ˠə/
* (Lewis) IPA: [ˈkʊ̃n̪ˠə]

### Noun

gunna m (genitive singular gunna, plural gunnachan)
* gun, musket
* 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

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

### References

* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gunna”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap

### Further reading

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