piseog

English

Alternative forms

• pisheog, pishoge, pishogue

Etymology

From Irish. Doublet of box, pyx, and pyxis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɪʃəʊɡ/

Noun

piseog (plural piseogs)

1. (Ireland) An evil spell; a curse.

Anagrams

• pogies

Irish

Alternative forms

• pisreog

Etymology

From Middle Irish piseóc (“charm, witchcraft”), probably borrowed from Latin pyxis (“medicine box”).

Noun

piseog f (genitive singular piseoige, nominative plural piseoga)

1. superstition, belief
   1. (in the plural) superstition(s), superstitious practices
2. spell, charm, medicine

Declension

Declension of piseog (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative piseog piseoga vocative a phiseog a phiseoga genitive piseoige piseog dative piseog piseoga forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an phiseog na piseoga genitive na piseoige na bpiseog dative leis an bpiseog don phiseog leis na piseoga

Derived terms

• cailleach phiseog
• piseogach
• piseogacht
• piseogaí

Descendants

• → English: piseog

Mutation

Mutated forms of piseog

radical	lenition	eclipsis
piseog	phiseog	bpiseog

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “piseog”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “piseóc, (pisóc)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “piseog”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “piseog”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025