píast

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• péist

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bēstia.

Noun

píast f

1. beast
2. monster

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle Irish: péist
  • Irish: péist
  • Manx: beisht
  • Scottish Gaelic: bèist

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
píast	phíast or unchanged	píast pronounced with /b(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “píast, péist”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language