cuas

See also: CUAS and C-UAS

Irish

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”).

cuas m (genitive singular cuais or cuasa, nominative plural cuasa)

Declension of cuas (first declension)

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an cuas	na cuasa
genitive	an chuais	na gcuas
dative	leis an gcuas don chuas	leis na cuasa

Mutated forms of *cuas*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
cuas	chuas	gcuas

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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