cuas

Irish

From Middle Irish cúa (“cavity, hollow”), from Old Irish cúas (“hollow”), possibly from Proto-Celtic *kow-sto-, from *kuwo-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱowh₁ós (“hollow”), from *ḱewh₁- (“to swell”).

cuas m (genitive singular cuais or cuasa, nominative plural cuasa)

Declension of cuas

Bare forms:

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cuas	chuas	gcuas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cuas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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