pilséar

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English pilchard.

Noun

pilséar m (genitive singular pilséir, nominative plural pilséir)

1. pilchard (small oily fish related to herrings, family Clupeidae)

Declension

Declension of pilséar (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative pilséar pilséir vocative a philséir a philséara genitive pilséir pilséar dative pilséar pilséir forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an pilséar na pilséir genitive an philséir na bpilséar dative leis an bpilséar don philséar leis na pilséir

Mutation

Mutated forms of pilséar

radical	lenition	eclipsis
pilséar	philséar	bpilséar

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

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “pilséar”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 542
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “pilséar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN