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cuas
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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish cúa (“cavity, hollow”), from Old Irish cúas (“hollow”), possibly from Proto-Celtic *kow-sto-, from *kuwo-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱowh₁ós (“hollow”), from *ḱewh₁- (“to swell”).
Noun
cuas m (genitive singular cuais or cuasa, nominative plural cuasa)
Declension
Derived terms
- cuas an bhéil
- cuas coirp
- cuas lastála
- cuas lódála
- cuas na láirge
- cuas na sróine
- cuas-súileach
- cuasach
- cuasacht
- cuasalt
- cuasán
- cuaschlaonas
- cuaschomhla
- cuasfhuinneog
- cuasleicneach
- cuasphlána
Related terms
Mutation
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), “cuas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cúa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cúas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “kuwo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 230
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “cuas”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “cuas”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
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