cneasda

See also: cneasta

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• cneasta

Etymology

From Old Irish cnesta (“healed; fitting, proper, seemly”), from cnes (“skin (of body); surface; body, flesh; bosom, breast”) + -ta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰʲrʲes̪t̪ə/

Adjective

cneasda

1. merciful

   Synonym: tròcaireach

   Antonym: mì-thròcaireach

Derived terms

• mì-chneasda

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
cneasda	chneasda
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cnesta”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language