spréach

Irish

Alternative forms

  • spiach
  • spreuch (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

Back-formation from spréacha, plural of spré, from Middle Irish spréd.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sˠpʲɾʲeːx/
  • (Munster) IPA(key): /sˠpʲɾʲia̯x/[3]

Noun

spréach f (genitive singular spréiche, nominative plural spréacha)

  1. spark (burst of electrical discharge; particle of glowing matter)

Declension

Declension of spréach (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative spréach spréacha
vocative a spréach a spréacha
genitive spréiche spréach
dative spréach
spréich (archaic, dialectal)
spréacha
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an spréach na spréacha
genitive na spréiche na spréach
dative leis an spréach
leis an spréich (archaic, dialectal)
don spréach
don spréich (archaic, dialectal)
leis na spréacha

Verb

spréach (present analytic spréachann, future analytic spréachfaidh, verbal noun spréachadh, past participle spréachta)

  1. to spark (give off sparks)

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ spréach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “spréd”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 21, page 13

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