piléar

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /pʲəˈlʲeːɾˠ/, /ˈpʲlʲeːɾˠ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈpʲɪlʲeːɾˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈpʲɪlʲaɾˠ/

From Old French pilier, from Medieval Latin or Vulgar Latin *pīlāre (“a pillar”), from Latin pīla (“a pillar, pier, mole”).

piléar m (genitive singular piléir, nominative plural piléir)

1. pillar (large post)
   • 1894 March, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:

     Tháinic sé colmáin gheala isteach ar an dorus, ⁊ shuidh siad ar philéir go robh an tAifrionn thart, ⁊ annsin chuaidh siad amach ar ais.

     Six white doves came into the door, and they sat upon a pillar till Mass was over, and then they went out.

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 pilér, (peilér)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “piléar”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 839; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “piléar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Metathesis of Middle Irish pirrél (“ballista”),^[1] from Old French perriere (“pestle”), from Latin petra (“stone”), from Ancient Greek πέτρᾱ (pétrā, “stone”). Alternatively, from Middle English pelet (“pellet”), from Old French pelote (“small ball”), from Vulgar Latin *pilotta, diminutive of Latin pila (“ball”).

piléar m (genitive singular piléir, nominative plural piléir)

1. bullet (projectile)

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “piléar”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 542
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “piléar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN