cleasaí

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Irish

Etymology

cleas +‎ -aí

Pronunciation

Noun

cleasaí m (genitive singular cleasaí, nominative plural cleasaithe)

  1. A playful person or animal.
  2. trickster, crafty person
    B'fhéidir go gcuimhneoidh daoine áirithe air mar fhear seoigh, rógaire nó cleasaí.
    Possibly certain people will remember him as a showman, rogue, or trickster.
  3. juggler, acrobat
  4. joker (playing card)

Declension

Declension of cleasaí (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative cleasaí cleasaithe
vocative a chleasaí a chleasaithe
genitive cleasaí cleasaithe
dative cleasaí cleasaithe
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an cleasaí na cleasaithe
genitive an chleasaí na gcleasaithe
dative leis an gcleasaí
don chleasaí
leis na cleasaithe

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of cleasaí
radical lenition eclipsis
cleasaí chleasaí gcleasaí

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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