píosa

See also: pìosa

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish pissa, borrowed from Middle English pece, from Anglo-Norman piece, from Late Latin pettia, from Gaulish *pettyā, from Proto-Celtic *kʷezdis (“piece, portion”). Doublet of cuid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʲiːsˠə/

Noun

píosa m (genitive singular píosa, nominative plural píosaí)

1. piece, bit (part of a larger whole; artistic creation)
2. patch (on clothing, cloth)
3. piecework
4. literary or musical composition
5. coin
6. (nautical) bailing-can, bailer

Declension

Declension of píosa (fourth declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative píosa píosaí vocative a phíosa a phíosaí genitive píosa píosaí dative píosa píosaí forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an píosa na píosaí genitive an phíosa na bpíosaí dative leis an bpíosa don phíosa leis na píosaí

Quotations

• 1906, E. C. Quiggin, A Dialect of Donegal (overall work in English), Cambridge University Press, § 374, page 127:

  pʹi꞉sə he꞉ bʹi꞉Nʹ

  [píosa shé bpingin]

  a sixpenny bit

Derived terms

• píosa croise (“florin”)
• píosa crosach (“florin”)
• píosa lóin (“lunch-packet”)
• píosa ordanáis (“cannon”)
• píosa páipéir (“piece of paper”)
• tríd an bpíosa (“on the whole”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of píosa

radical	lenition	eclipsis
píosa	phíosa	bpíosa

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “píosa”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “píosa”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 543