cneastacht

Irish

Etymology

From cneasta +‎ -acht.

Noun

cneastacht f (genitive singular cneastachta)

1. honesty, sincerity
2. seemliness
3. mildness of manner

Declension

Declension of cneastacht (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative cneastacht vocative a chneastacht genitive cneastachta dative cneastacht forms with the definite article case singular nominative an chneastacht genitive na cneastachta dative leis an gcneastacht don chneastacht

Mutation

Mutated forms of cneastacht

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cneastacht	chneastacht	gcneastacht

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) “cneastacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cneastacht”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “cneastacht”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024