clúas
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *kloustā, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- (“to hear”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kluːa̯s/
Noun
clúas f
- 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. 112b13
- 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.
- 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. 112b13
- 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:
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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
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