ceansa

Irish

Alternative forms

  • ceannsa (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From Old Irish censae, abstract noun of cennais (“meek, gentle”) (whence modern ceannais).[2] The adjective (attested already as Middle Irish cendsa[3]) probably originated as an attributive use of the genitive singular of the noun.

Pronunciation

Noun

ceansa f (genitive singular ceansa)

  1. meekness, gentleness, tameness, mildness, docility

Declension

Declension of ceansa (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative ceansa
vocative a cheansa
genitive ceansa
dative ceansa
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an cheansa
genitive na ceansa
dative leis an gceansa
don cheansa

Adjective

ceansa

  1. meek, gentle, tame, mild, docile

Declension

Declension of ceansa
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative ceansa cheansa ceansa;
cheansa2
vocative cheansa ceansa
genitive ceansa ceansa ceansa
dative ceansa;
cheansa1 		cheansa ceansa;
cheansa2
Comparative níos ceansa
Superlative is ceansa

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

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of ceansa
radical lenition eclipsis
ceansa cheansa gceansa

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

References

  1. ^ “ceansa”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cennsae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cennsa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 27, page 16

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