deas

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See also: DEAs, de-aș, and déas

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdiːəs/, /ˈdeɪəs/

Noun

deas (plural deases)

  1. (Scotland) Alternative form of dais
    • 1823, [Walter Scott], “The Man-at-Arms”, in Quentin Durward. , volume I, Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 109:
      I could never think of a King but what I supposed him sitting under the high deas, and feasting amid his high vassals and Paladins, eating blanc-manger, with a great gold crown upon his head, or else charging at the head of his troops like Charlemagne in the romaunts, or like Robert Bruce or William Wallace in our own true histories.

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Galician

Verb

deas

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of dar

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish dess (right-hand; south; right, just; convenient, agreeable), from Proto-Celtic *dexswos, from Proto-Indo-European *deḱswo-, from *deḱs- (right-hand side).

Pronunciation

Adverb

deas

  1. (destination) south, southerly, to the south

Usage notes

  • This word refers only to the ultimate destination of movement (i.e., "to the south").

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Adjective

deas (genitive singular masculine deis, genitive singular feminine deise, plural deasa, comparative deise)

  1. right, right-hand (opposite of left)

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Adjective

deas (comparative deise)

  1. (used predicatively) near, close; convenient (~ do (to))

Adjective

deas (genitive singular masculine deas, genitive singular feminine deise, plural deasa, comparative deise)

  1. right, correct (opposite of wrong)
  2. nice
  3. pretty
  4. honest
  5. straight

Usage notes

In the senses ‘nice’ and ‘pretty’, this adjective takes the adverbial construction go deas when used predicatively after a form of :

  • Tá an crann seo go deas.This tree is nice/pretty.

Declension

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Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
deas dheas ndeas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Latin

Noun

deās

  1. accusative plural of dea

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish dess (right-hand; south; right, just; convenient, agreeable), from Proto-Celtic *dexswos, from Proto-Indo-European *deḱswo-, from *deḱs- (right-hand side).

Adjective

deas (comparative deise)

  1. ready, prepared, accomplished
  2. right, right-hand
  3. adroit, dexterous, skillful, expert
  4. trim, spruce
  5. erect
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Noun

deas f (genitive singular deise, plural deasan)

  1. south
    Antonym: tuath
Derived terms
See also

(compass points)

iar-thuath tuath ear-thuath
iar ear
iar-dheas deas ear-dheas


Adjective

deas (comparative deise)

  1. southern, south

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

deas

  1. remain, abide

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “deas”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dess”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Spanish

Noun

deas f pl

  1. plural of dea