úas

See also: uas, UAs, -uas, and uas-

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• ós

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ouxsos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ewps-. Cognate with Ancient Greek ὕψι (húpsi) and Proto-Slavic *vysь.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uːa̯s/

Preposition

úas

1. above, over

Antonyms

• ís

Related terms

• anúas
• súas
• túas
• úasal

 

Descendants

• Irish: os

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
úas (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-úas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 úas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language