cluas

See also: clúas

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

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

Noun

cluas f (genitive singular cluaise, nominative plural cluasa)

  1. ear
  2. ear-shaped object; lug, handle; cleat; tab
  3. corner, margin

Declension
Declension of cluas

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cluas cluasa
Vocative a chluas a chluasa
Genitive cluaise cluas
Dative cluais cluasa

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an chluas na cluasa
Genitive na cluaise na gcluas
Dative leis an gcluais

don chluais

 leis na cluasa

Derived terms
  • 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 a chur ort féin (“to prick one’s ears, to listen”)
  • cluas a thabhairt do rud (“to give ear, listen, to something”)
  • cluas bróige f (“tag of shoe”)
  • cluas caipín f (“lug of cap”)
  • cluas chaoin (“cuckoo-pint”)
  • cluas cupáin f (“handle of cup”)
  • cluas do cheol f (“an ear for music”)
  • cluas eachtrach f (“outer ear”)
  • cluas ghéar f, cluas easóige f (“sharp ears”)
  • cluas inmheánach f (“inner ear”)
  • cluas láir f (“middle ear”)
  • cluas le héisteacht f (“attentive ear”)
  • cluas liath (“mouse-ear hawkweed”)
  • cluas luchóige (“mouse-ear chickweed”)
  • cluas maide rámha (“cleat of oar”)
  • cluas pota f (“handle of pot”)
  • cluas spáide f (“tread of spade”)
  • cluas tobáin f (“handle of tub”)
  • cluas tuirne f (“spindle-holder”)
  • cluas- (“aural”)
  • cluasa duine a líonadh, lán na gcluas a thabhairt do dhuine (“to fill someone's ears with idle talk”)
  • cluasach (“having ears, long-eared; dog-eared”, adjective)
  • cluasaí m (“listener, eavesdropper”)
  • cluasán m (“listless, inattentive, person; dullard; ear-phone, head-phone”)
  • cluasbheart m (“ear-protector”)
  • cluasdubh (“black-eared”)
  • cluaséisteacht f (“(act of) eavesdropping”)
  • cluasfheadaíl f (“soft whistling”)
  • cluasleathan (“broad-eared”)
  • cluaslia m (“ear specialist”)
  • cluasmharcáil f (“earmarking”)
  • cluasóg f (“corner (as of field); grassy patch; lug”)
  • cnámhóg cluaise f (“ear ossicle”)
  • cor cluaise m (“double sheet bend”)
  • dul ar an gcluas (“to be overcome with sleep”) (of child)
  • fadchluasach (“long-eared”)
  • fáinne cluaise m (“earring”)
  • fithis na cluaise (“auditory meatus”)
  • gearrchluasach (“short-eared”, adjective)
  • glao cluaise (“buzzing in the ears”)
  • i gcluasa an bhaile mhóir (“in the suburbs”)
  • líonadh cluas (“filling of ears”) (with gossip, etc.)
  • pian chluaise f (“ear-ache”)
  • poll cluaise (“ear-hole”)
  • raon cluas (“earshot”)
  • tinneas cluaise (“earache”)
  • tiompán na cluaise m (“eardrum”)

Mutation
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.

Further reading

Latin

Pronunciation

Verb

cluās

  1. second-person singular present active subjunctive of cluō

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish clúas, from Proto-Celtic *kloustā.

Noun

cluas f (dative singular cluas or cluais, genitive singular cluaise, plural cluasan)

  1. (anatomy) ear
  2. handle, lug

Derived terms

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
cluaschluas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “cluas”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “clúas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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