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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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
píopa phíopa bpíopa
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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

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