cleasach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish clesach. By surface analysis, cleas (“trick; feat; knack; act”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Pronunciation

Adjective

cleasach (genitive singular masculine cleasaigh, genitive singular feminine cleasaí, plural cleasacha, comparative cleasaí)

  1. playful
  2. tricky, crafty

Declension

Declension of cleasach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative cleasach chleasach cleasacha;
chleasacha2
vocative chleasaigh cleasacha
genitive cleasaí cleasacha cleasach
dative cleasach;
chleasach1 		chleasach;
chleasaigh (archaic) 		cleasacha;
chleasacha2
Comparative níos cleasaí
Superlative is cleasaí

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

  • cleasaí m (“playful person or animal; trickster, crafty person; juggler; acrobat; joker”)
  • cleasaíocht f (“(act of) playing, tricking; playfulness, trickery; (act of) juggling; dexterous feats, acrobatics”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cleasach
radical lenition eclipsis
cleasach chleasach gcleasach

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

References

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