deas

See also: DEAs, de-aș, and déas

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiːəs/, /ˈdeɪəs/

Noun

deas (plural deases)

1. (Scotland) Alternative form of dais
   • 1823, [Walter Scott], “The Man-at-Arms”, in Quentin Durward. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 109:

     I could never think of a King but what I supposed him sitting under the high deas, and feasting amid his high vassals and Paladins, eating blanc-manger, with a great gold crown upon his head, or else charging at the head of his troops like Charlemagne in the romaunts, or like Robert Bruce or William Wallace in our own true histories.

References

• “deas”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• ADEs, 'eads, Desa, Eads, sade, AEDs, ṣādē, EADs, Ades, ades, Seda, Saed, SEAD, ESAD, EDAs

Galician

Verb

deas

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of dar

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish dess (“right-hand; south; right, just; convenient, agreeable”), from Proto-Celtic *dexswos, from Proto-Indo-European *deḱswo-, from *deḱs- (“right-hand side”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dʲasˠ/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /dʲæsˠ/

Adverb

deas

1. (destination) south, southerly, to the south

Usage notes

• This word refers only to the ultimate destination of movement (i.e., "to the south").

Synonyms

• aduaidh

Antonyms

• aneas

Derived terms

• deisiúr
• ó dheas (“southwards”)

Related terms

• deisceart m (“south”)

See also

• theas (position)
• tuaisceart
• thuaidh

Adjective

deas (genitive singular masculine deis, genitive singular feminine deise, plural deasa, comparative deise)

1. right, right-hand (opposite of left)

Declension

Declension of deas

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	deas	dheas	deasa; dheasa2
vocative	dheis		deasa
genitive		deise	deasa	deas
dative	deas; dheas1	dheas; dheis (archaic)	deasa; dheasa2
Comparative	níos deise
Superlative	is deise

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

• comhdheas (“ambidextrous”, adjective)
• deiseal m (“clockwise”)
• deasóg f (“right hand”)

Adjective

deas (comparative deise)

1. (used predicatively) near, close; convenient (~ do (“to”))

Adjective

deas (genitive singular masculine deas, genitive singular feminine deise, plural deasa, comparative deise)

1. right, correct (opposite of wrong)
2. nice
3. pretty
4. honest
5. straight

Usage notes

In the senses ‘nice’ and ‘pretty’, this adjective takes the adverbial construction go deas when used predicatively after a form of bí:

• Tá an crann seo go deas. ― This tree is nice/pretty.

Declension

Declension of deas

	singular		plural (m/f)
Positive	masculine	feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
nominative	deas	dheas	deasa; dheasa2
vocative	dheas		deasa
genitive		deise	deasa	deas
dative	deas; dheas1	dheas	deasa; dheasa2
Comparative	níos deise
Superlative	is deise

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

• comhdheas (“convenient (to)”, adjective)
• deasaigh (“dress”, verb)
• deiseacht f (“nearness”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of deas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
deas	dheas	ndeas

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

Further reading

• Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 76
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “deas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dess”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Latin

Noun

deās

1. accusative plural of dea

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɛs̪/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish dess (“right-hand; south; right, just; convenient, agreeable”), from Proto-Celtic *dexswos, from Proto-Indo-European *deḱswo-, from *deḱs- (“right-hand side”).

Adjective

deas (comparative deise)

1. ready, prepared, accomplished
2. right, right-hand
3. adroit, dexterous, skillful, expert
4. trim, spruce
5. erect

Synonyms

• (right): ceart

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “right”): ceàrr, clì
• (antonym(s) of “adroit, dexterous”): mì-dheas, aindeas

Derived terms

• briogadh deis m (“right click”)
• deas-àiteachadh m (“agriculture”)
• deas-bhriathrach (“eloquent”, adjective)
• deas-bhriathrach (“eloquent”, adjective)
• deas-chainnt f (“eloquence”)
• deas-cheumach (“stately in gait; having a neat manner of walking”, adjective)
• deas-fhacal m (“ready word; smart reply”)
• deas-fhear m (“ambidexter”)
• deas-ghluasad m, deas-iomairt f (“proper gestures”)
• deas-ghnàth m (“ceremony”)
• deas-labhair (“articulate”, verb)
• deas-labhairt m (“eloquence, address, fluency of speech; elocution”)
• deas-labhrach (“eloquent, having a command of language”, adjective)
• deas-làmhach (“right-handed, ambidexterous; dexterous, “neat-handed.”; ready-handed; of, or pertaining to, a right hand”, adjective)
• deas-làmhachd f (“ambidexterity; dexterity, “neatness” of hand”)
• deas-làmh f (“right hand”)
• deasaich (“prepare; edit”, verb)
• deiseil (“southward, sunward; clockwise; having a southern exposure; lucky; ready, prepared, finished”)

 

Noun

deas f (genitive singular deise, plural deasan)

1. south

   Antonym: tuath

Derived terms

• a deas

See also

(compass points)

iar-thuath	tuath	ear-thuath
iar		ear
iar-dheas	deas	ear-dheas

Adjective

deas (comparative deise)

1. southern, south

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

deas

1. remain, abide

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “deas”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dess”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Spanish

Noun

deas f pl

1. plural of dea