ceannas

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cennas (“headship, leadership, superiority, precedence”). By surface analysis, ceann (“head”) +‎ -as.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈcan̪ˠəsˠ/

Noun

ceannas m (genitive singular ceannais)

1. headship, sovereignty
2. authority, command

   i gceannas ― in command, in charge, in the driver's seat

Declension

Declension of ceannas (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative ceannas vocative a cheannais genitive ceannais dative ceannas forms with the definite article case singular nominative an ceannas genitive an cheannais dative leis an gceannas don cheannas

Derived terms

• ardcheannas (“supremacy, sovereignty”)
• babhta ceannais
• babhta leathcheannais (“semifinal (game)”)
• ceannasach (“ruling, dominant”)
• ceannasaí (“commander; controller”)
• cluiche ceannais (“final, championship (game)”)
• cluiche leathcheannais
• i gceannas (“in command, in charge”)
• oifigeach ceannais (“commanding officer”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of ceannas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
ceannas	cheannas	gceannas

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ceannas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cennas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language