spréach
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Back-formation from spréacha, plural of spré, from Middle Irish spréd.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]spréach f (genitive singular spréiche, nominative plural spréacha)
- spark (burst of electrical discharge; particle of glowing matter)
Declension
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Verb
[edit]spréach (present analytic spréachann, future analytic spréachfaidh, verbal noun spréachadh, past participle spréachta)
- to spark (give off sparks)
Conjugation
[edit]conjugation of spréach (first conjugation – A)
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
References
[edit]- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 13
Further reading
[edit]- “spréach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “spréd”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “spréaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “spréach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN