plúr

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See also: plur, PLUR, plur., and Plur.

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish plúr, from Anglo-Norman flur (compare Scottish Gaelic flùr), from Old French flor, from Latin flōs (“flower”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“flower, blossom”), from *bʰel- (“to bloom”).[1] The initial p- comes from a reinterpretation of initial f- as ph-, the lenition of p-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pˠl̪ˠuːɾˠ/, /pˠlˠuːɾˠ/[2]

Noun

plúr m (genitive singular plúir, nominative plural plúir)

  1. flour
  2. flower
    Synonym: bláth
    • 1894 March, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:
      D’imthigh an buachaill amach as an tigh phobuil arís, ⁊ fuair sé é féin i ngarrdha áluinn breágh plúr, ⁊ bhain sé ceann do na plúra’ ⁊ thug leis é.
      The youth went out of the church again, and found himself in a lovely, fine garden of flowers, and he pulled one of the flowers and brought it with him.

Declension

Declension of plúr

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative plúr plúir
Vocative a phlúir a phlúra
Genitive plúir plúr
Dative plúr plúir

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an plúr na plúir
Genitive an phlúir na bplúr
Dative leis an bplúr

don phlúr

leis na plúir

Derived terms

See also

  • min (“meal”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
plúr phlúr bplúr
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “plúr”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 359, page 123

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