paist

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Irish

Etymology

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Noun

paist f (genitive singular paiste)

  1. (mineralogy) paste

Declension

Declension of paist (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative paist
vocative a phaist
genitive paiste
dative paist
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an phaist
genitive na paiste
dative leis an bpaist
don phaist

Mutation

Mutated forms of paist
radical lenition eclipsis
paist phaist bpaist

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

References

Livonian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *paistadak.

Verb

paist

  1. (Salaca) shine
  2. (Salaca) be visible
  3. (Salaca) swell

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