cneasta
See also: cneasda
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish cnesta (“healed; fitting, proper, seemly”), from cnes (“skin (of body); surface; body, flesh; bosom, breast”).
Declension
Declension of cneasta
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | cneasta | chneasta | cneasta; chneasta² | |
| Vocative | chneasta | cneasta | ||
| Genitive | cneasta | cneasta | cneasta | |
| Dative | cneasta; chneasta¹ |
chneasta | cneasta; chneasta² | |
| Comparative | níos cneasta | |||
| Superlative | is cneasta | |||
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| cneasta | chneasta | gcneasta |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
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