píast

See also: piast and Piast

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• péist

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin bēstia.

Noun

píast f

1. beast
2. monster

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	píastL	péistL	píastaH
Vocative	píastL	péistL	píastaH
Accusative	péistN	péistL	píastaH
Genitive	péisteH	píastL	píastN
Dative	péistL	píastaib	píastaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

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