cleas
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Irish cles (“feat”). Perhaps ultimately related to cluiche (“joke, game”).[1]
Noun
[edit]cleas m (genitive singular clis or cleasa, nominative plural cleasa or cleasanna)
- trick
- 27 June 2015, Alan Titley, "Caimléireacht scrúdaithe", The Irish Times
- Is é an cleas is fearr, gan amhras, ná go mbeadh an obair déanta, […]
- The best trick, of course, is that the work is done, […]
- 27 June 2015, Alan Titley, "Caimléireacht scrúdaithe", The Irish Times
- feat
- knack
- act
Declension
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Alternative declension:
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Derived terms
[edit]- cleasach (“playful, tricky”)
- cleasaí (“joker”)
- lúthchleas (“athletics”)
References
[edit]- ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “cleas”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]cleas m (genitive singular cleas, nominative plural cleasanna)
- (derogatory) class (of persons), gang
Declension
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Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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cleas | chleas | gcleas |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cles”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cleas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 146
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cleas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cleas”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “cleas”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish cles (“feat”). Perhaps ultimately related to cluich (“joke, game”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cleas m (genitive singular cleasa, plural cleasan)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “cleas”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[2], Stirling, →ISBN
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