piliúr

Irish
piliúr

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowing from Middle English pilwer (“pillow case”), from pilwe (“pillow”) + Old Norse ver (“case, cover”).

Pronunciation

Noun

piliúr m (genitive singular piliúir, nominative plural piliúir)

  1. pillow

Declension
Declension of piliúr

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative piliúr piliúir
Vocative a philiúir a philiúra
Genitive piliúir piliúr
Dative piliúr piliúir

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an piliúr na piliúir
Genitive an philiúir na bpiliúr
Dative leis an bpiliúr

don philiúr

 leis na piliúir

Synonyms

Derived terms
  • clúdach piliúir (“pillow-case”)
  • lása piliúir (“pillow-lace”)
  • piliúr lása (“lace-pillow”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
piliúr philiúr bpiliúr
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “peiliúr”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 541
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “3 pilér, pillér, pilliúr”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “pilliúr”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 542

Further reading
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