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]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
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| cneasta | chneasta | gcneasta |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
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
Mutation
[edit]| Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition |
| cneasta | chneasta |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |