úas

See also: uas, UAs, -uas, and uas-

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• ós

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ouxsos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ewps-. Cognate with Welsh uwch, Ancient Greek ὕψι (húpsi) and Proto-Slavic *vysь.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uːa̯s/

Preposition

úas (+dative)

1. above, over
   • c. 850 Glosses on the Carlsruhe Beda, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 10–30, Bcr. 33^b1

     .i. aesca bís co mmatain os talam

     i.e. the moon that continues over the earth till morning

   • c. 9th century, Int én bec, in The Blackbird by Belfast Loch in Early Irish lyrics, eighth to twelfth century (1956; Oxford University Press) edited by Gerard Murphy, with translation by David Stifter

     Fo·ceird faíd ós Loch Laíg, lon do chraíb charnbuidi.

     He casts a cry over Loch Laíg, the blackbird from the yellow-heaped branch.

Antonyms

• ís

Related terms

• anúas
• súas
• túas
• úasal

 

Descendants

• Irish: os
• Scottish Gaelic: os

Mutation

Mutation of úas

radical	lenition	nasalization
úas (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-úas

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 úas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language