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pléasc

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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pléasc f (genitive singular pléisce, nominative plural pléascanna)

  1. explosion, blast
  2. bang (sudden percussive noise)
    pléasc ghunnareport of gun, sound of gunfire
  3. crash (loud sound)
    pléasc thoirnía crash of thunder
  4. crack, pop (loud, sharp sound)

Declension

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Declension of pléasc (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative pléasc pléascanna
vocative a phléasc a phléascanna
genitive pléisce pléascanna
dative pléasc
pléisc (archaic, dialectal)
pléascanna
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an phléasc na pléascanna
genitive na pléisce na bpléascanna
dative leis an bpléasc
leis an bpléisc (archaic, dialectal)
don phléasc
don phléisc (archaic, dialectal)
leis na pléascanna

Derived terms

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Verb

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pléasc (present analytic pléascann, future analytic pléascfaidh, verbal noun pléascadh, past participle pléasctha) (transitive, intransitive)

  1. to burst ((cause to) break from internal pressure), explode, blow up, pop, go up
  2. to crack ((cause to) make a sharp sound), snap
  3. to bang (make sudden loud noises (on)), pop
    Bhí sí ag pléascadh an bhoird.
    She was banging the table.
  4. to crash ((cause to) collide)
  5. to blast, shatter

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of pléasc
radical lenition eclipsis
pléasc phléasc bpléasc

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

References

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  1. ^ pléasc”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy

Further reading

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