deas

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See also: DEAs, de-aș, and déas

English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdiːəs/, /ˈdeɪəs/

Noun

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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.

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Galician

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Verb

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deas

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of dar

Irish

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Etymology

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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).

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Adverb

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deas

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

Usage notes

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

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Adjective

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

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

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Adjective

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deas (comparative deise)

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

Adjective

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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

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

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

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
deas dheas ndeas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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Latin

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Noun

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deās

  1. accusative plural of dea

Scottish Gaelic

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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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

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deas (comparative deise)

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

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deas f (genitive singular deise, plural deasan)

  1. south
    Antonym: tuath
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(compass points)

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


Adjective

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deas (comparative deise)

  1. southern, south

Etymology 2

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Verb

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deas

  1. remain, abide

References

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  • 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

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Noun

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deas f pl

  1. plural of dea