péist

Irish

Péist

Alternative forms

• piast (Munster)

Etymology

From Middle Irish péist, from Old Irish píast, from Latin bēstia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʲeːʃtʲ/

Noun

péist f (genitive singular péiste, nominative plural péisteanna)

1. dragon, fabulous beast, reptile, monster
2. worm (animal)
   1. (distilling) worm
   2. (figuratively, of a person) worm

Declension

Declension of péist (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative péist péisteanna vocative a phéist a phéisteanna genitive péiste péisteanna dative péist péisteanna forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an phéist na péisteanna genitive na péiste na bpéisteanna dative leis an bpéist don phéist leis na péisteanna

• Alternative plural: péistí

Derived terms

• cac péiste (“worm-cast”)
• cor na péiste (“cable-stitch”)
• ollphéist (“serpent, (serpentine) monster”)
• péist an dá shúil déag (“lamprey”)
• péist an tseoil (“sail-fish”)
• péist chabáiste (“caterpillar”)
• péist cháil (“caterpillar”)
• péist chapaill (“large caterpillar”)
• péist chon (“sea-serpent”)
• péist chrúcach (“hookworm”)
• péist eagaoise (“worm affecting gizzard of bird”)
• péist eireabaill (“tailworm”)
• péist ghliogair (“rattlesnake”)
• péist ghoile (“mawworm”)
• péist mhara (“sea-serpent”)
• péist mhór (“monster; whale”)
• péist phlánach (“flatworm”)
• péist ribíneach (“tapeworm”)
• péist talún (“earthworm”)
• péistchruthach (“vermiform”, adjective)
• péisteach (“wormy; wormlike”, adjective)
• péisteánach (“stingy person”)
• péisteánacht (“stinginess”)
• péisteog (“(small) worm”)
• péistiúil (“wormlike”, adjective)
• péistphurgóid (“vermifuge”)
• poll péiste (“worm-hole”)
• púdar péisteanna (“worm-powder”)
• snaidhm na péiste (“serpent’s knot”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of péist

radical	lenition	eclipsis
péist	phéist	bpéist

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “péist”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “píast, péist”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language