geasa
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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 ..."
- "[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."
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: geasa
Synonyms
geas or geis
mistakenly treated as a singular