plá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pla"

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈplaː]

Verb

plá

  1. third-person singular present of plát
    Synonym: plaje

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish plág, from Latin plāga.[1] Cognate with Manx plaih and Scottish Gaelic plàigh.

Pronunciation

  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /pˠlˠaːj/, /pˠl̪ˠaːj/[2] (corresponding to the form pláigh)

Noun

plá f (genitive singular as substantive plá, genitive as verbal noun pláite, nominative plural plánna)

  1. verbal noun of pláigh (“to plague, pester”)
  2. (literal and figurative) plague
  3. pestilence
    plá is gorta ― pestilence and famine

Declension

Declension of plá (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative plá plánna
vocative a phlá a phlánna
genitive plá plánna
dative plá plánna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an phlá na plánna
genitive na plá na bplánna
dative leis an bplá
don phlá 		leis na plánna

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • pláúil

Mutation

Mutated forms of plá
radical lenition eclipsis
plá phlá bplá

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “plág”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 359, page 123

Further reading

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