páiste

See also: paiste, pàiste, and päiste

Irish

From Classical Gaelic páitse (compare Manx paitçhey, Scottish Gaelic pàisde), from Old French page, from Late Latin pagius (“servant”) (possibly via Italian paggio), probably from Ancient Greek παιδίον (paidíon, “boy, lad”), from παῖς (paîs, “child”); some sources consider this unlikely and suggest instead Latin pagus (“countryside”), in sense of “boy from the rural regions”.

páiste m (genitive singular páiste, nominative plural páistí)

child
- 1894 March, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:
  Bhí sé pósta ar sheisear ban i ndiaidh a chéile, acht do mharbhuigh sé alig an tsaoghal iad, ar eagla go mbeidheadh páistídhe ar bith aca.
  He was married to six wives, one after another, but he killed all-in-the-world of them for fear they should have any children at all.

Declension of páiste (fourth declension)

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an páiste	na páistí
genitive	an pháiste	na bpáistí
dative	leis an bpáiste don pháiste	leis na páistí

Mutated forms of *páiste*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
páiste	pháiste	bpáiste

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 126, page 67
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 359, page 123