plúr

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

Irish

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-.

plúr m (genitive singular plúir, nominative plural plúir)

flour
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 of plúr (first declension)

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

Mutated forms of *plúr*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
plúr	phlúr	bplúr

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

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