cneasta

See also: cneasda

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cnesta (“healed; fitting, proper, seemly”). By surface analysis, cneas +‎ -ta.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈcnʲasˠt̪ˠə/
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈcɾʲasˠt̪ˠə/

Adjective

cneasta

1. honest, sincere
2. decent
3. mild-mannered
4. (weather) mild, calm

Declension

Declension of cneasta

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	cneasta	chneasta	cneasta; chneasta2
vocative	chneasta		cneasta
genitive		cneasta	cneasta	cneasta
dative	cneasta; chneasta1	chneasta	cneasta; chneasta2
Comparative	níos cneasta
Superlative	is cneasta

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

• cneastacht
• míchneasta

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of cneasta

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cneasta	chneasta	gcneasta

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cneasta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cnesta”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cneasta”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “cneasta”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 33

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkrʲes̪t̪ə/

Adjective

cneasta

1. Alternative form of cneasda

Mutation

Mutation of cneasta

radical	lenition
cneasta	chneasta

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