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Irish
Etymology
From claon (“inclined, sloping”) + -as.
Noun
claonas m (genitive singular claonais, nominative plural claonais)
- dip (lower section of a road or geological feature; inclination downward)
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| claonas
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chlaonas
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gclaonas
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “claonas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “claonas”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “claonas”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024