ceannas

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cennas (“headship, leadership, superiority, precedence”). By surface analysis, ceann (“head”) +‎ -as.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈcan̪ˠəsˠ/

Noun

ceannas m (genitive singular ceannais)

1. headship, sovereignty
2. authority, command

   i gceannas ― in command, in charge, in the driver's seat

Declension

Declension of ceannas

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative ceannas Vocative a cheannais Genitive ceannais Dative ceannas

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an ceannas Genitive an cheannais Dative leis an gceannas don cheannas

Derived terms

• ardcheannas (“supremacy, sovereignty”)
• babhta ceannais
• babhta leathcheannais (“semifinal (game)”)
• ceannasach (“ruling, dominant”)
• ceannasaí (“commander; controller”)
• cluiche ceannais (“final, championship (game)”)
• cluiche leathcheannais
• i gceannas (“in command, in charge”)
• oifigeach ceannais (“commanding officer”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
ceannas	cheannas	gceannas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ceannas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 cennas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language