cluas

See also: clúas

Irish

Alternative forms

• cluais (Galway)

Etymology

From Old Irish clúas, from Proto-Celtic *kloustā (compare Welsh clust); more at clois.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /kl̪ˠuəsˠ/
• (Galway) IPA^(key): /kluəsˠ/, /klˠuəʃ/ (reflecting the alternative form cluais)
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /klˠuəsˠ/

Noun

cluas f (genitive singular cluaise, nominative plural cluasa)

1. ear
2. ear-shaped object; lug, handle; cleat; tab
3. corner, margin

Declension

Declension of cluas (second declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative cluas cluasa vocative a chluas a chluasa genitive cluaise cluas dative cluais cluasa forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an chluas na cluasa genitive na cluaise na gcluas dative leis an gcluais don chluais leis na cluasa

• Dual: dhá chluais

Derived terms

• béim chluaise f, comhartha cluaise (“ear-mark”)
• bíonn cluasa ar na claíocha, bíonn cluasa ar an gcoill (“walls have ears”)
• bog na cluaise m, bun na cluaise m, liopa cluaise m, maothán cluaise m (“earlobe”)
• canáil na cluaise f (“ear canal”)
• céir chluaise f, sail chluaise f (“ear-wax”)
• cluaisín m (“auricle; tab, lobe; lug”)
• cluas a chur ort féin (“to prick one’s ears, to listen”)
• cluas a thabhairt do rud (“to give ear, listen, to something”)
• cluas bróige f (“tag of shoe”)
• cluas caipín f (“lug of cap”)
• cluas chaoin (“cuckoo-pint”)
• cluas cupáin f (“handle of cup”)
• cluas do cheol f (“an ear for music”)
• cluas eachtrach f (“outer ear”)
• cluas ghéar f, cluas easóige f (“sharp ears”)
• cluas inmheánach f (“inner ear”)
• cluas láir f (“middle ear”)
• cluas le héisteacht f (“attentive ear”)
• cluas liath (“mouse-ear hawkweed”)
• cluas luchóige (“mouse-ear chickweed”)
• cluas maide rámha (“cleat of oar”)
• cluas pota f (“handle of pot”)
• cluas spáide f (“tread of spade”)
• cluas tobáin f (“handle of tub”)
• cluas tuirne f (“spindle-holder”)
• cluas- (“aural”)
• cluasa duine a líonadh, lán na gcluas a thabhairt do dhuine (“to fill someone's ears with idle talk”)
• cluasach (“having ears, long-eared; dog-eared”, adjective)
• cluasaí m (“listener, eavesdropper”)
• cluasán m (“listless, inattentive, person; dullard; ear-phone, head-phone”)
• cluasbheart m (“ear-protector”)
• cluasdubh (“black-eared”)
• cluaséisteacht f (“(act of) eavesdropping”)
• cluasfheadaíl f (“soft whistling”)
• cluasleathan (“broad-eared”)
• cluaslia m (“ear specialist”)
• cluasmharcáil f (“earmarking”)
• cluasóg f (“corner (as of field); grassy patch; lug”)
• cnámhóg cluaise f (“ear ossicle”)
• cor cluaise m (“double sheet bend”)
• dul ar an gcluas (“to be overcome with sleep”) (of child)
• fadchluasach (“long-eared”)
• fáinne cluaise m (“earring”)
• fithis na cluaise (“auditory meatus”)
• gearrchluasach (“short-eared”, adjective)
• glao cluaise (“buzzing in the ears”)
• i gcluasa an bhaile mhóir (“in the suburbs”)
• líonadh cluas (“filling of ears”) (with gossip, etc.)
• pian chluaise f (“ear-ache”)
• poll cluaise (“ear-hole”)
• raon cluas (“earshot”)
• tinneas cluaise (“earache”)
• tiompán na cluaise m (“eardrum”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cluas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cluas	chluas	gcluas

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

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cluas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 152
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cluas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cluas”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “cluas”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈklu.aːs/, [ˈkɫ̪uäːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈklu.as/, [ˈkluːäs]

Verb

cluās

1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of cluō

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish clúas, from Proto-Celtic *kloustā.

Noun

cluas f (dative singular cluas or cluais, genitive singular cluaise, plural cluasan)

1. (anatomy) ear
2. handle, lug

Derived terms

• cèir-chluaise (“earwax”)
• cluas-liath (“coltsfoot”)
• cluas-mhara (“abalone”)
• cluasach (“having large ears; ansated, having handles”)
• fàinne-chluaise (“earring”)
• fòn-cluaise (“earphone”)

Mutation

Mutation of cluas

radical	lenition
cluas	chluas

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

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “cluas”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “clúas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language