cas – Irish adjective declension

Irish adjective forms of cas

Adjective: cas
Declension: 1
Singular Nominativecas
Singular Genitive Masc.cais
Singular Genitive Fem.caise
Plural Nominativecasa

Comparative

níos caise
ní ba chaise

Superlative

is caise
ba chaise

Adjectives inflected like cas

cas, glas, iathghlas, muirghlas, pras, úllghlas,

Etymology

1. From Old Irish cass (“curly, curly-haired”), from Proto-Celtic *kassos (“curly, twisted, woven”).
2. The verb is from Middle Irish casaid, from the adjective.

Translations

  • curve, bend or turn gradually from a given direction
  • turn, to move around an axis through itself
  • turn, to change the direction or orientation of, especially by rotation
  • turn, to change one's direction of travel