Irish

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish persa, from Old Irish persan, from Latin persōna.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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pearsa f (genitive singular pearsan, nominative plural pearsana)

  1. person
  2. (theater, literature) person, character
    Synonym: carachtar
  3. (grammar) person
  4. figure, person, personality
    Synonyms: duine mór le rá, duine mór

Declension

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
pearsa phearsa bpearsa
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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Scottish Gaelic

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish persa, from Old Irish persan, from Latin persōna.

Noun

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pearsa m or f (genitive singular pearsa, plural pearsachan or pearsannan)

  1. person
  2. character (in a book, film etc)

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
pearsa phearsa
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “pearsa”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “persa”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language