pluais

Irish

Alternative forms

• pluaiséad, pruais

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pˠlˠuəʃ/

Noun

pluais f (genitive singular pluaise, nominative plural pluaiseanna)

1. cave
2. den

   pluais sionnaigh ― fox’s den

Declension

Declension of pluais (second declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative pluais pluaiseanna vocative a phluais a phluaiseanna genitive pluaise pluaiseanna dative pluais pluaiseanna forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an phluais na pluaiseanna genitive na pluaise na bpluaiseanna dative leis an bpluais don phluais leis na pluaiseanna

Derived terms

• pluaisneog

Mutation

Mutated forms of pluais

radical	lenition	eclipsis
pluais	phluais	bpluais

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

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “pluais”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 547
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “pluais”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN