Irish
Etymology
From an Pheirs (“Persia”) + -is (“-ish, -ese”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Peirsis f (genitive Peirsise)
- the Persian language
Declension
Declension of Peirsis (second declension, no plural)
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- Peirseach (“Persian”, adjective)
- Peirseach m (“Persian person”)
Mutation
Mutated forms of Peirsis
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lenition
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eclipsis
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| Peirsis
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Pheirsis
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bPeirsis
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “Peirsis”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Peirsis on the Irish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ga
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “Peirsis”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “Peirsis”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025