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Irish
Etymology
From Early Modern English pleasur, plesur, from Middle English plaisir (“pleasure”), from Old French plesir, plaisir (“to please”), from Latin placeō (“to please, to seem good”), from the Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-k- (“wide and flat”).
Pronunciation
Noun
pléisiúr m (genitive singular pléisiúir, nominative plural pléisiúir)
- pleasure
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| pléisiúr
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phléisiúr
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bpléisiúr
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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
- “pléisiúr”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “pléisiúr”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 546
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “pléisiúr”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN