cineáltas

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From cineálta +‎ -as. Compare Scottish Gaelic cinealtas.

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /cɪˈnʲɑːl̪ˠt̪ˠəsˠ/
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈcinˠɑːl̪ˠt̪ˠəsˠ/[2]
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈcɨnʲal̪ˠt̪ˠəsˠ/

Noun

cineáltas m (genitive singular cineáltais, nominative plural cineáltais)

  1. kindness (state of being kind; instance of charitable behavior) [with le ‘towards’]
  2. humanity (quality of being benevolent), kindliness

Declension

Declension of cineáltas (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cineáltas cineáltais
vocative a chineáltais a chineáltasa
genitive cineáltais cineáltas
dative cineáltas cineáltais
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an cineáltas na cineáltais
genitive an chineáltais na gcineáltas
dative leis an gcineáltas
don chineáltas 		leis na cineáltais

Mutation

Mutated forms of cineáltas
radical lenition eclipsis
cineáltas chineáltas gcineáltas

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

References

  1. ^ “cineáltas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 173

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