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cluasaíocht

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From cluasaí (listener) (itself from cluas (ear)) + -íocht.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cluasaíocht f (genitive singular cluasaíochta)

  1. (act of) listening attentively or furtively
  2. eavesdropping

Declension

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Declension of cluasaíocht (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative cluasaíocht
vocative a chluasaíocht
genitive cluasaíochta
dative cluasaíocht

Mutation

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Mutated forms of cluasaíocht
radical lenition eclipsis
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

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  1. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “cluasaíocht”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
  2. ^ cluasaíocht”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  3. ^ 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

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