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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)
- cavity; hollow, recess
- (geography) cove, creek
- (anatomy) sinus, cup
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Mutation
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Eclipsis
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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) “cuas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 cúa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, 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
- Entries containing “cuas” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “cuas” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.