pioctha
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Irish
[edit]Participle
[edit]pioctha
- past participle of pioc (“to pick”)
Adjective
[edit]pioctha
- spruce (smart and elegant), spruced up, dapper
- neat, tidy
- pioctha bearrtha ― spick-and-span
- pioctha pointeáilte ― neat as a pin
Synonyms
[edit]- (spruce, dapper): pointeáilte
- (neat, tidy): néata, slachtmhar
Derived terms
[edit]- pioctha péacach (“dressed up; fresh as a daisy”)
- pioctha sciúrtha (“immaculate in appearance”)
- piocthacht
Noun
[edit]pioctha
Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
pioctha | phioctha | bpioctha |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “piocṫa”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “pioctha”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN