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
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