cnagaosta

Irish

Etymology

From cnagaois (“advanced age”) +‎ -ta (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

cnagaosta

advanced in years, elderly

Synonyms

(elderly): scothaosta, seanórtha

Related terms

Terms related to cnagaosta

anaosta (“youthful”, adjective)
aosta (“aged, old”, adjective)
breacaosta (“fairly old”, adjective)

bunaosta (“fairly old; middle-aged”, adjective)
cianaosta (“long-lived, very old; pristine, primeval”, adjective)
comhaosta (“of the same age; contemporary, coeval”, adjective)

críonaosta (“old and withered”, adjective)
foraosta (“very old”, adjective)
lánaosta (“of full age; rather old”, adjective)

meánaosta (“middle-aged”, adjective)
tonnaosta (“getting on in years”, adjective)
tromaosta (“of advanced age”, adjective)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cnagaosta	chnagaosta	gcnagaosta
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"cnagaosta" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

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