cneasda

See also: cneasta

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• cneasta

Etymology

From Old Irish cnesta (“healed; fitting, proper, seemly”), from cnes (“skin (of body); surface; body, flesh; bosom, breast”) + -ta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰʲrʲes̪t̪ə/

Adjective

cneasda

1. merciful

   Synonym: tròcaireach

   Antonym: mì-thròcaireach

Derived terms

• mì-chneasda

Mutation

Mutation of cneasda

radical	lenition
cneasda	chneasda

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cnesta”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language