pléisiúr

pléisiúr

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

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /pʲlʲeːˈʃuːɾˠ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈpʲlʲeːʃuːɾˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈpʲlʲeːʃuɾˠ/

Noun

pléisiúr m (genitive singular pléisiúir, nominative plural pléisiúir)

1. pleasure

Declension

Declension of pléisiúr

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative pléisiúr pléisiúir Vocative a phléisiúir a phléisiúra Genitive pléisiúir pléisiúr Dative pléisiúr pléisiúir

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an pléisiúr na pléisiúir Genitive an phléisiúir na bpléisiúr Dative leis an bpléisiúr don phléisiúr leis na pléisiúir

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
pléisiúr	phléisiúr	bpléisiúr
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• “pléisiúr” at the Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926 of the Royal Irish Academy.
• “pléisiúr” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 546.
• "pléisiúr" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.