The story
- Irish · borrowed fromgeis“injunction; taboo, prohibition, spell”
- English todaygeas
Borrowed, like English geis, from Irish geis (“injunction; taboo, prohibition, spell”). The pronunciation resembles Irish geis, though the spelling matches its synonymous but heterophonous alternative form geas.
Words from the same roots
Irishgeis all →
geis
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.