Páras

See also: Appendix:Variations of "paras"

Irish

Etymology

From Old French Paris, from Late Latin Lutetia Parisiorum (literally “Lutetia of the Parisii”), from Latin Parīsiī, a Gaulish tribe.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Páras m (genitive Pháras)

  1. Paris (the capital and largest city of France)
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 196:
      Do lean sé an captaen riamh agus choidhche nó gur bhain sé amach baile beag atá beagán slighe amach ó Pháras na Frainnce.
      He followed the captain continuously until he reached a small town some distance from Paris in France.

Mutation

Mutated forms of Páras
radical lenition eclipsis
Páras Pháras bPáras

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

Further reading

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