cluas

See also: clúas

Irish

From Old Irish clúas, from Proto-Celtic *kloustā (compare Welsh clust); more at clois.

IPA^(key): /klˠuəsˠ/
(Aran) IPA^(key): /kluəʃ/ (reflecting nonstandard form cluais, the old dative), /kluəsˠ/

cluas f (genitive singular cluaise, nominative plural cluasa)

Declension of cluas

Second declension

Bare forms

Terms derived from cluas

béim chluaise f, comhartha cluaise (“ear-mark”)
bíonn cluasa ar na claíocha, bíonn cluasa ar an gcoill (“walls have ears”)
bog na cluaise m, bun na cluaise m, liopa cluaise m, maothán cluaise m (“earlobe”)
canáil na cluaise f (“ear canal”)
céir chluaise f, sail chluaise f (“ear-wax”)
cluaisín m (“auricle; tab, lobe; lug”)
cluas- (“aural”)
cluasach (“having ears, long-eared; dog-eared”, adj)
cluas a chur ort féin (“to prick one’s ears, to listen”)
cluasa duine a líonadh, lán na gcluas a thabhairt do dhuine (“to fill someone's ears with idle talk”)
cluasaí m (“listener, eavesdropper”)
cluasán m (“listless, inattentive, person; dullard; ear-phone, head-phone”)
cluas a thabhairt do rud (“to give ear, listen, to something”)
cluasbheart m (“ear-protector”)
cluas bróige f (“tag of shoe”)
cluas caipín f (“lug of cap”)
cluas chaoin (“cuckoo-pint”)
cluas cupáin f (“handle of cup”)

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cluas	chluas	gcluas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

“clúas” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
“cluas” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
"cluas" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

cluās

cluas f (genitive singular cluaise, plural cluasan)

Terms derived from cluas

Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
“clúas” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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