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spréach

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Back-formation from spréacha, plural of spré, from Middle Irish spréd.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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spréach f (genitive singular spréiche, nominative plural spréacha)

  1. spark (burst of electrical discharge; particle of glowing matter)

Declension

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Declension of spréach (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative spréach spréacha
vocative a spréach a spréacha
genitive spréiche spréach
dative spréach
spréich (archaic, dialectal)
spréacha
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an spréach na spréacha
genitive na spréiche na spréach
dative leis an spréach
leis an spréich (archaic, dialectal)
don spréach
don spréich (archaic, dialectal)
leis na spréacha

Verb

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spréach (present analytic spréachann, future analytic spréachfaidh, verbal noun spréachadh, past participle spréachta)

  1. to spark (give off sparks)

Conjugation

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References

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  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 13

Further reading

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