cneasta
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See also: cneasda
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish cnesta (“healed; fitting, proper, seemly”). By surface analysis, cneas + -ta.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]cneasta
Declension
[edit]singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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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
[edit]Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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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
[edit]- 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 (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 33
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]cneasta
- Alternative form of cneasda