leastar

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish lestar (“vessel, container; beehive; ship, boat, vessel”), possibly a Brythonic loanword. Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *lestrom (“pot”), regardless (compare Breton lestr, Welsh llestr).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈl̠ʲasˠt̪ˠəɾˠ/

Noun

leastar m (genitive singular leastair, nominative plural leastair)

  1. vessel
    1. container for liquids
    2. cask, firkin
    3. (wash-)tub
    4. (nautical, of boat) punt, tub
    5. (figurative) vessel (person as a container of qualities or feelings)
  2. squat, dumpy, person; person hard to move; latecomer

Declension

Declension of leastar

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative leastar leastair
Vocative a leastair a leastara
Genitive leastair leastar
Dative leastar leastair

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an leastar na leastair
Genitive an leastair na leastar
Dative leis an leastar

don leastar

leis na leastair

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