cluasaíocht
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From cluasaí (“listener”) (itself from cluas (“ear”)) + -íocht.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cluasaíocht f (genitive singular cluasaíochta)
- (act of) listening attentively or furtively
- eavesdropping
Declension
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Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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cluasaíocht | chluasaíocht | gcluasaíocht |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “cluasaíocht”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- ^ “cluasaíocht”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 269, page 135
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cluasaíocht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN