piliúr

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowing from Middle English pilwer (“pillow case”), from pilwe (“pillow”) + Old Norse ver (“case, cover”).

Pronunciation

  • (Galway) IPA(key): /ˈpʲɛlʲuːɾˠ/ (corresponding to the form peiliúr)

Noun

piliúr m (genitive singular piliúir, nominative plural piliúir)

  1. pillow

Declension

Declension of piliúr (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative piliúr piliúir
vocative a philiúir a philiúra
genitive piliúir piliúr
dative piliúr piliúir
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an piliúr na piliúir
genitive an philiúir na bpiliúr
dative leis an bpiliúr
don philiúr 		leis na piliúir

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • clúdach piliúir (“pillow-case”)
  • lása piliúir (“pillow-lace”)
  • piliúr lása (“lace-pillow”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of piliúr
radical lenition eclipsis
piliúr philiúr bpiliúr

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

References

  1. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “peiliúr”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 541
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 pilér, pillér, pilliúr”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “pilliúr”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 542

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