fleasc

Irish

Alternative forms

  • flasc, pleasc
  • flasg, fleasg, pleasg (obsolete)[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fʲlʲasˠk/

Etymology 1

    From Old Irish flesc,[2] from Proto-Celtic *wliskā, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wel-. Possibly related to Gothic 𐍅𐌻𐌹𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wlizjan, “to mortify, bruise”).[3]

    Noun

    fleasc f (genitive singular fleisce, nominative plural fleasca)

    1. wand, rod
    2. (engineering, architecture) fillet
    3. wreath, garland
    4. circlet
    5. (typography) dash (typographic symbol)
    6. hoop, band, rim
    7. (literary) line, stroke (for an Ogham letter)
    Declension
    Declension of fleasc (second declension)
    bare forms
    singular plural
    nominative fleasc fleasca
    vocative a fhleasc a fhleasca
    genitive fleisce fleasc
    dative fleasc
    fleisc (archaic, dialectal)     		fleasca
    forms with the definite article
    singular plural
    nominative an fhleasc na fleasca
    genitive na fleisce na bhfleasc
    dative leis an bhfleasc
    leis an bhfleisc (archaic, dialectal)
    don fhleasc
    don fhleisc (archaic, dialectal)     		leis na fleasca
    Derived terms
    • bláthfhleasc
    • coscán fleisce (“rim brake”)
    • eachlasc
    • faonfhleasc
    • Fleasc (“(River) Flesk”)
    • fleasc an droma (“flat of the back”)
    • fleasc dhraíochta (“magic wand”)
    • fleascach
    • fleascóir
    • forfhleasc

    Etymology 2

      From English flask, from Middle English flask (“case, cask, keg”), from Old English flasce (“bottle, flask”), from Proto-West Germanic *flaskā, from Proto-Germanic *flaskǭ (“bottle, jug”).

      Noun

      fleasc m (genitive singular fleasca, nominative plural fleascanna)

      1. flask
      Declension
      Declension of fleasc (third declension)
      bare forms
      singular plural
      nominative fleasc fleascanna
      vocative a fhleasc a fhleascanna
      genitive fleasca fleascanna
      dative fleasc fleascanna
      forms with the definite article
      singular plural
      nominative an fleasc na fleascanna
      genitive an fhleasca na bhfleascanna
      dative leis an bhfleasc
      don fhleasc       		leis na fleascanna
      Derived terms

      Etymology 3

      From Middle Irish flesc (“wetting”),[4] probably from the root of Old Irish fliuch (“wet”).

      Noun

      fleasc m (genitive singular fleasca, nominative plural fleascanna)

      1. synonym of flosc (“flux, torrent”)

      Mutation

      Mutated forms of fleasc
      radical lenition eclipsis
      fleasc fhleasc bhfleasc

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

      References

      1. ^ “fleasc”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
      2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 flesc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
      3. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009), Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 426
      4. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 flesc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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