píosa

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish pissa, borrowed from Middle English pece, from Anglo-Norman piece, from Late Latin pettia, from Gaulish *pettyā, from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis (“piece, portion”). Doublet of cuid.

Pronunciation

Noun

píosa m (genitive singular píosa, nominative plural píosaí)

  1. piece, bit (part of a larger whole; artistic creation)
  2. patch (on clothing, cloth)
  3. piecework
  4. literary or musical composition
  5. coin
  6. (nautical) bailing-can, bailer

Declension

Declension of píosa

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative píosa píosaí
Vocative a phíosa a phíosaí
Genitive píosa píosaí
Dative píosa píosaí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an píosa na píosaí
Genitive an phíosa na bpíosaí
Dative leis an bpíosa

don phíosa

leis na píosaí

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
píosa phíosa bpíosa
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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