Irish

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish pípa, borrowed from Vulgar Latin *pipa, from Latin pipō.[1] Doublet of píb.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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píopa m (genitive singular píopa, nominative plural píopaí)

  1. pipe (hollow tube; tobacco pipe; large container; computing character)

Declension

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Declension of píopa (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative píopa píopaí
vocative a phíopa a phíopaí
genitive píopa píopaí
dative píopa píopaí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an píopa na píopaí
genitive an phíopa na bpíopaí
dative leis an bpíopa
don phíopa
leis na píopaí

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of píopa
radical lenition eclipsis
píopa phíopa bpíopa

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

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “pípa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 361, page 123

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