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Irish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman place (“open space”), from Latin platea (“plaza, wide street”), from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa), shortening of πλατεῖα ὁδός (plateîa hodós, “broad way”).
Noun
plás m (genitive singular pláis, nominative plural pláis)
- a place (open space; group of houses)
- a plaza
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Anglo-Norman plaise, from Late Latin platessa.
Noun
plás m (genitive singular pláis, nominative plural pláis)
- plaice
Declension
Synonyms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| plás
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phlás
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bplás
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 plás”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “plás”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “plás”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “plás”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024