pléadáil

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English pleden (from Old French plaidier) + -áil. By surface analysis, pléid (disputation) +‎ -áil. Cognate with Manx pleadeil.

Pronunciation

Verb

pléadáil (present analytic pléadálann, future analytic pléadálfaidh, verbal noun pléadáil, past participle pléadáilte)

  1. (law) to plead (a suit)
    pléideáil ciontachto plead guilty
  2. to dispute
  3. to wrangle

Conjugation

Noun

pléadáil f (genitive singular pléadála, nominative plural pléadálacha)

  1. verbal noun of pléadáil
  2. (law) plea (defendant's answer to plaintiff’s declaration)
    pléideáil chiontacha guilty plea

Declension

Declension of pléadáil (third declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative pléadáil pléadálacha
vocative a phléadáil a phléadálacha
genitive pléadála pléadálacha
dative pléadáil pléadálacha
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an phléadáil na pléadálacha
genitive na pléadála na bpléadálacha
dative leis an bpléadáil
don phléadáil
leis na pléadálacha

Mutation

Mutated forms of pléadáil
radical lenition eclipsis
pléadáil phléadáil bpléadáil

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

References

  1. ^ Ó Máille, T. S. (1974), Liosta Focal as Ros Muc [Word List from Rosmuck] (in Irish), Baile Átha Cliath [Dublin]: Irish University Press, →ISBN, page 160

Further reading

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “pléideáil; pléideálaim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 847; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “pléadáil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN