cianaosta
Irish
editEtymology
editFrom cianaois (“old age; ancient times”) + -ta (adjectival suffix) or cian- (“long; remote, distant”) + aosta (“aged, old”).
Adjective
editcianaosta
- long-lived, very old
- pristine, primeval
Declension
editDeclension of cianaosta
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | cianaosta | chianaosta | cianaosta; chianaosta² | |
Vocative | chianaosta | cianaosta | ||
Genitive | cianaosta | cianaosta | cianaosta | |
Dative | cianaosta; chianaosta¹ |
chianaosta | cianaosta; chianaosta² | |
Comparative | níos cianaosta | |||
Superlative | is cianaosta |
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Synonyms
edit- (very old): foraosta
Related terms
edit- anaosta (“youthful”, adjective)
- breacaosta (“fairly old”, adjective)
- bunaosta (“fairly old; middle-aged”, adjective)
- cnagaosta (“advanced in years, elderly”, adjective)
- comhaosta (“of the same age; contemporary, coeval”, adjective)
- críonaosta (“old and withered”, adjective)
- lánaosta (“of full age; rather old”, adjective)
- meánaosta (“middle-aged”, adjective)
- scothaosta (“fairly old, elderly”, adjective)
- tonnaosta (“getting on in years”, adjective)
- tromaosta (“of advanced age”, adjective)
Mutation
editIrish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
cianaosta | chianaosta | gcianaosta |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cianaosta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN