plúr

See also: plur, PLUR, plur., and Plur.

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish plúr, from Anglo-Norman flur (compare Scottish Gaelic flùr), from Old French flor, from Latin flōs (“flower”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“flower, blossom”), from *bʰel- (“to bloom”).[1] The initial p- comes from a reinterpretation of initial f- as ph-, the lenition of p-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pˠl̪ˠuːɾˠ/, /pˠlˠuːɾˠ/[2]

Noun

plúr m (genitive singular plúir, nominative plural plúir)

  1. flour
  2. flower
    Synonym: bláth
    • 1894 March, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:
      D’imthigh an buachaill amach as an tigh phobuil arís, ⁊ fuair sé é féin i ngarrdha áluinn breágh plúr, ⁊ bhain sé ceann do na plúra’ ⁊ thug leis é.
      The youth went out of the church again, and found himself in a lovely, fine garden of flowers, and he pulled one of the flowers and brought it with him.

Declension

Declension of plúr (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative plúr plúir
vocative a phlúir a phlúra
genitive plúir plúr
dative plúr plúir
plúraibh (archaic)
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an plúr na plúir
genitive an phlúir na bplúr
dative leis an bplúr
don phlúr 		leis na plúir

Derived terms

  • arán plúir (“flour bread; home-made bread”)
  • brachán plúir (“white sauce”)
  • ceannaí plúir (“flour-factor”)
  • mála plúir (“bag of flour; flour-bag”)
  • muileann plúir (“flour-mill”)
  • muilleoir plúir (“flour-miller”)
  • muilleoireacht plúir (“flour-milling”)
  • plúirín (“anil, indigo; pretty girl”)
  • plúr an locháin (“water-lobelia”)
  • plúr carraige (“rock flour”)
  • plúr cruithneachta (“wheaten flour”)
  • plúr geal (“white flour”)
  • plúr na gréine (“heliotrope”)
  • plúr ruibhe (“flowers of sulphur”)
  • plúrach (“floury, farinaceous; flower-like, pretty; efflorescent”)
  • plúraigh (“effloresce”)
  • plúrán cloigneach (“Canterbury bell”)
  • plúróg (“pretty girl”)
  • plúrscoth (“choicest flower, pick, choice”)
  • sos plúir (“relief supply of flour”)
  • spréire plúir (“flour-box, flour-dredger”)

See also

  • min (“meal”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of plúr
radical lenition eclipsis
plúr phlúr bplúr

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), “plúr”, 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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