fleasc

Irish

Alternative forms

  • flasc, pleasc
  • flasg, fleasg, pleasg (obsolete)[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fʲlʲasˠk/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish flesc,[2] from Proto-Celtic *wliskā. Possibly related to Gothic 𐍅𐌻𐌹𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wlizjan, “to mortify, bruise”).[3]

Noun

fleasc f (genitive singular fleisce, nominative plural fleasca)

  1. wand, rod
  2. (engineering, architecture) fillet
  3. wreath, garland
  4. circlet
  5. (typography) dash (typographic symbol)
  6. hoop, band, rim
  7. (literary) line, stroke (for an Ogham letter)
Declension
Declension of fleasc (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative fleasc fleasca
vocative a fhleasc a fhleasca
genitive fleisce fleasc
dative fleasc
fleisc (archaic, dialectal) 		fleasca
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an fhleasc na fleasca
genitive na fleisce na bhfleasc
dative leis an bhfleasc
leis an bhfleisc (archaic, dialectal)
don fhleasc
don fhleisc (archaic, dialectal) 		leis na fleasca
Derived terms
  • bláthfhleasc
  • coscán fleisce (“rim brake”)
  • eachlasc
  • faonfhleasc
  • Fleasc (“(River) Flesk”)
  • fleasc an droma (“flat of the back”)
  • fleasc dhraíochta (“magic wand”)
  • fleascach
  • fleascóir
  • forfhleasc

Etymology 2

From English flask, from Middle English flask (“case, cask, keg”), from Old English flasce (“bottle, flask”), from Proto-West Germanic *flaskā, from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ (“bottle, jug”).

Noun

fleasc m (genitive singular fleasca, nominative plural fleascanna)

  1. flask
Declension
Declension of fleasc (third declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative fleasc fleascanna
vocative a fhleasc a fhleascanna
genitive fleasca fleascanna
dative fleasc fleascanna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an fleasc na fleascanna
genitive an fhleasca na bhfleascanna
dative leis an bhfleasc
don fhleasc 		leis na fleascanna
Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Middle Irish flesc (“wetting”),[4] probably from the root of Old Irish fliuch (“wet”).

Noun

fleasc m (genitive singular fleasca, nominative plural fleascanna)

  1. synonym of flosc (“flux, torrent”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of fleasc
radical lenition eclipsis
fleasc fhleasc bhfleasc

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

References

  1. ^ “fleasc”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 flesc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 426
  4. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 flesc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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