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גְּרֵידָא, גְּרֵדָא
Reading Walla news, I've suddenly encountered another word I've never met before.
Its meaning is the same as רַק or בִּלְבַד: only, just this, the only thing.
Dictionaries (like my Even-Shoshan) don't mark any stress in this word, which implicitely means the stress is on the last syllable.
In the spoken languages the stress, as I figured out, is on the syllable before the last (the -ei-.)
Example (from Even-Shoshan): אֵינִי מְבַקֵּשׁ מִמְּךָ אֶלָּא דָּבָר זֶה גְּרֵידָא -- I'm asking you (to do) only this thing.
The context where I've found (an article about war between web browsers):
אִם הַתְּלוּנָה שֶׁל אוֹפֶּרָה הִיא קַנְטְרָנִית וְזוֹ שֶׁל מוֹזִילָה הִיא נְקָמָנִית, הֲרֵי שֶׁהַהִצְטָרְפוּת שֶׁל גּוּגֶל לְמַעַן הִיא אִינְטֶרְסָנִית גְּרֵידָא.
Translation: If the complaints of Opera is provocative and that of Mozilla (might be seens as) vengeful (is this a good translation?), but Google is joining purely for business reasons.
I believe couple of words in the above sentence deserve a discussion of their own... :)