leastar

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish lestar (“vessel, container; beehive; ship, boat, vessel”), possibly a Brythonic loanword. Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *lestrom (“pot”), regardless (compare Breton lestr, Welsh llestr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈl̠ʲasˠt̪ˠəɾˠ/

Noun

leastar m (genitive singular leastair, nominative plural leastair)

1. vessel
   1. container for liquids
   2. cask, firkin
   3. (wash-)tub
   4. (nautical, of boat) punt, tub
   5. (figurative) vessel (person as a container of qualities or feelings)
2. squat, dumpy, person; person hard to move; latecomer

Declension

Declension of leastar (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative leastar leastair vocative a leastair a leastara genitive leastair leastar dative leastar leastair forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an leastar na leastair genitive an leastair na leastar dative leis an leastar don leastar leis na leastair

Synonyms

• (vessel): áras m, galún m, soitheach m
• (washtub): tobán níocháin
• (nautical): pota

Further reading

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