deas

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiːəs/, /ˈdeɪəs/

deas (plural deases)

1. (Scotland) Alternative form of dais
   • 1823, [Walter Scott], “The Man-at-Arms”, in Quentin Durward. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 109:

     I could never think of a King but what I supposed him sitting under the high deas, and feasting amid his high vassals and Paladins, eating blanc-manger, with a great gold crown upon his head, or else charging at the head of his troops like Charlemagne in the romaunts, or like Robert Bruce or William Wallace in our own true histories.

• “deas”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• ADEs, 'eads, Desa, Eads, sade, AEDs, ṣādē, EADs, Ades, ades, Seda, Saed, SEAD, ESAD, EDAs

deas

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of dar

From Old Irish dess (“right-hand; south; right, just; convenient, agreeable”), from Proto-Celtic *dexswos, from Proto-Indo-European *deḱswo-, from *deḱs- (“right-hand side”).

• IPA^(key): /dʲasˠ/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /dʲæsˠ/

deas

1. (destination) south, southerly, to the south

• This word refers only to the ultimate destination of movement (i.e., "to the south").

• aduaidh

• aneas

• deisiúr
• ó dheas (“southwards”)

• deisceart m (“south”)

• theas (position)
• tuaisceart
• thuaidh

deas (genitive singular masculine deis, genitive singular feminine deise, plural deasa, comparative deise)

1. right, right-hand (opposite of left)

• comhdheas (“ambidextrous”, adjective)
• deiseal m (“clockwise”)
• deasóg f (“right hand”)

deas (comparative deise)

1. (used predicatively) near, close; convenient (~ do (“to”))

deas (genitive singular masculine deas, genitive singular feminine deise, plural deasa, comparative deise)

1. right, correct (opposite of wrong)
2. nice
3. pretty
4. honest
5. straight

In the senses ‘nice’ and ‘pretty’, this adjective takes the adverbial construction go deas when used predicatively after a form of bí:

• Tá an crann seo go deas. ― This tree is nice/pretty.

• comhdheas (“convenient (to)”, adjective)
• deasaigh (“dress”, verb)
• deiseacht f (“nearness”)

• Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 76
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “deas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dess”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

deās

1. accusative plural of dea

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɛs̪/

From Old Irish dess (“right-hand; south; right, just; convenient, agreeable”), from Proto-Celtic *dexswos, from Proto-Indo-European *deḱswo-, from *deḱs- (“right-hand side”).

deas (comparative deise)

1. ready, prepared, accomplished
2. right, right-hand
3. adroit, dexterous, skillful, expert
4. trim, spruce
5. erect

• (right): ceart

• (antonym(s) of “right”): ceàrr, clì
• (antonym(s) of “adroit, dexterous”): mì-dheas, aindeas

deas f (genitive singular deise, plural deasan)

1. south

   Antonym: tuath

• a deas

(compass points)

deas (comparative deise)

1. southern, south

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

deas

1. remain, abide

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “deas”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dess”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

deas f pl

1. plural of dea