pléiseam

Irish

Alternative forms

  • pleiseám, pléiseám[1]

Etymology

Apparently a compound of plé (“disputing, debating”) +‎ seam (literally “rivet”), which in the plural seamanna can also mean “sophistries, meaningless talk”.

Pronunciation

Noun

pléiseam m (genitive singular pléiseam)

  1. (Ulster) foolery, fooling around

Synonyms

Mutation

Mutated forms of pléiseam
radical lenition eclipsis
pléiseam phléiseam bpléiseam

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

References

  1. ^ “pléiseam”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 481, page 154

Further reading

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “pléiseam”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 847; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “pléiseam”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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