cleasach
Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish clesach. By surface analysis, cleas (“trick; feat; knack; act”) + -ach (adjectival suffix).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editcleasach (genitive singular masculine cleasaigh, genitive singular feminine cleasaí, plural cleasacha, comparative cleasaí)
Declension
editDeclension of cleasach
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | cleasach | chleasach | cleasacha; chleasacha² | |
Vocative | chleasaigh | cleasacha | ||
Genitive | cleasaí | cleasacha | cleasach | |
Dative | cleasach; chleasach¹ |
chleasach; chleasaigh (archaic) |
cleasacha; chleasacha² | |
Comparative | níos cleasaí | |||
Superlative | is cleasaí |
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Related terms
edit- cleasaí m (“playful person or animal; trickster, crafty person; juggler; acrobat; joker”)
- cleasaíocht f (“(act of) playing, tricking; playfulness, trickery; (act of) juggling; dexterous feats, acrobatics”)
Mutation
editIrish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
cleasach | chleasach | gcleasach |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cleasach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “clesach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language