plá
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "pla"
Czech
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]plá
- third-person singular present of plát
- Synonym: plaje
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- pláigh (superseded)
- plágha, pláighe (superseded, genitive singular)
- plághadh (verbal noun)
Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish plág, from Latin plāga.[1] Cognate with Manx plaih and Scottish Gaelic plàigh.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]plá f (genitive singular as substantive plá, genitive as verbal noun pláite, nominative plural plánna)
- verbal noun of pláigh (“to plague, pester”)
- (literal and figurative) plague
- pestilence
- plá is gorta ― pestilence and famine
Declension
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Synonyms
[edit]- (pestilence): aicíd
Derived terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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plá | phlá | bplá |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “plág”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 359, page 123
Further reading
[edit]- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “pláiġ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 544
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “plá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN