cneasta

See also: cneasda

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cnesta (“healed; fitting, proper, seemly”), from cnes (“skin (of body); surface; body, flesh; bosom, breast”) + -ta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈcnʲasˠt̪ˠə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈcɾʲasˠt̪ˠə/

Adjective

cneasta

1. honest, sincere
2. decent
3. mild-mannered
4. (weather) mild, calm

Declension

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

• cneastacht
• míchneasta

 

Mutation

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

• 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

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Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkrʲes̪t̪ə/

Adjective

cneasta

1. Alternative form of cneasda

Mutation

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.