fleasc

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Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish flesc,[2] from Proto-Celtic *wliskā. Possibly related to Gothic 𐍅𐌻𐌹𐌶𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wlizjan, to mortify, bruise).[3]

Noun

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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)
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Etymology 2

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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

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fleasc m (genitive singular fleasca, nominative plural fleascanna)

  1. flask
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Etymology 3

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

Noun

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fleasc m (genitive singular fleasca, nominative plural fleascanna)

  1. Synonym of flosc (flux, torrent)

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fleasc fhleasc bhfleasc
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  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

Further reading

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