cianaosta

Irish

Etymology

From cianaois (“old age; ancient times”) +‎ -ta (adjectival suffix) or cian- (“long; remote, distant”) +‎ aosta (“aged, old”).

Adjective

cianaosta

1. long-lived, very old
2. pristine, primeval

Declension

Declension of cianaosta

	singular		plural (m/f)
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

• (very old): foraosta

Related terms

• 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

Mutated forms of cianaosta

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cianaosta	chianaosta	gcianaosta

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cianaosta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN