clúas

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kloustā, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- (“to hear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kluːa̯s/

Noun

clúas f

1. ear
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 112^b13

     Is demniu liunn a n-ad·chiam húa súlib ol·daas an ro·chluinemmar húa chlúasaib.

     What we see with (lit. from) the eyes is more certain to us than what we hear with (lit. from) the ears.

2. hearing

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	clúasL	clúaisL	clúasaH
Vocative	clúasL	clúaisL	clúasaH
Accusative	clúaisN	clúaisL	clúasaH
Genitive	clúaiseH	clúasL	clúasN
Dative	clúaisL	clúasaib	clúasaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: cluas
• Manx: cleaysh
• Scottish Gaelic: cluas

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
clúas	chlúas	clúas pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “clúas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language