Páras
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "paras"
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French Paris, from Late Latin Lutetia Parisiorum (literally “Lutetia of the Parisii”), from Latin Parīsiī, a Gaulish tribe.
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Páras m (genitive Pháras)
- Paris (the capital and largest city of France)
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 196:
- Do lean sé an captaen riamh agus choidhche nó gur bhain sé amach baile beag atá beagán slighe amach ó Pháras na Frainnce.
- He followed the captain continuously until he reached a small town some distance from Paris in France.
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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Páras | Pháras | bPáras |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “Páras”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “Páras”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
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