ceannas

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cennas (“headship, leadership, superiority, precedence”). By surface analysis, ceann (“head”) +‎ -as.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈcan̪ˠəsˠ/

Noun

ceannas m (genitive singular ceannais)

  1. headship, sovereignty
  2. authority, command
    i gceannas ― in command, in charge, in the driver's seat

Declension

Declension of ceannas (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative ceannas
vocative a cheannais
genitive ceannais
dative ceannas
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an ceannas
genitive an cheannais
dative leis an gceannas
don cheannas

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of ceannas
radical lenition eclipsis
ceannas cheannas gceannas

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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