cleasach

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish clesach. By surface analysis, cleas (“trick; feat; knack; act”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

Adjective

cleasach (genitive singular masculine cleasaigh, genitive singular feminine cleasaí, plural cleasacha, comparative cleasaí)

  1. playful
  2. tricky, crafty

Declension

Declension of cleasach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative cleasach chleasach cleasacha;
chleasacha2
vocative chleasaigh cleasacha
genitive cleasaí cleasacha cleasach
dative cleasach;
chleasach1 		chleasach;
chleasaigh (archaic) 		cleasacha;
chleasacha2
Comparative níos cleasaí
Superlative is cleasaí

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

  • cleasaí m (“playful person or animal; trickster, crafty person; juggler; acrobat; joker”)
  • cleasaíocht f (“(act of) playing, tricking; playfulness, trickery; (act of) juggling; dexterous feats, acrobatics”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cleasach
radical lenition eclipsis
cleasach chleasach gcleasach

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

References

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