piliúr

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Irish

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piliúr

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowing from Middle English pilwer (pillow case), from pilwe (pillow) Old Norse ver (case, cover).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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piliúr m (genitive singular piliúir, nominative plural piliúir)

  1. pillow

Declension

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Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
piliúr philiúr bpiliúr
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “peiliúr”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 541
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 pilér, pillér, pilliúr”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “pilliúr”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 542

Further reading

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