See also: pluch

Irish edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

plúch (present analytic plúchann, future analytic plúchfaidh, verbal noun plúchadh, past participle plúchta) (transitive)

  1. to suffocate (transitive), smother, asphyxiate, stifle
  2. to choke (transitive)
    Synonym: tacht
  3. to press, squeeze
  4. to congest
  5. to muffle (mute or deaden)
  6. to inundate (overwhelm)
    1. (business) to glut (a market)
    2. (telecommunications) to jam (block or confuse a broadcast signal)

Usage notes edit

The Irish verb is transitive; the intransitive English senses of suffocate, choke etc. must be translated using a passive or impersonal construction, such as Tá sé á phlúchadh (He is choking), Plúchadh iad (They (were) suffocated), or by making the thing on which the person choked the subject of the sentence, as Phlúch an deatach í (She asphyxiated on the smoke, literally The smoke asphyxiated her).

Conjugation edit

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
plúch phlúch bplúch
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading edit