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plá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pla"

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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plá

  1. third-person singular present of plát
    Synonym: plaje

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish plág, from Latin plāga.[1] Cognate with Manx plaih and Scottish Gaelic plàigh.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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plá f (genitive singular as substantive plá, genitive as verbal noun pláite, nominative plural plánna)

  1. verbal noun of pláigh (“to plague, pester”)
  2. (literal and figurative) plague
  3. pestilence
    plá is gorta ― pestilence and famine

Declension

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Declension of plá

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative plá plánna
Vocative a phlá a phlánna
Genitive plá plánna
Dative plá plánna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an phlá na plánna
Genitive na plá na bplánna
Dative leis an bplá

don phlá

leis na plánna

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
plá phlá bplá
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), “plág”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 359, page 123

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