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638 GLOSSARY.
pearsa, person, 0. Ir. persa = [from] Lat. persona.
peasair, pease = [from] Lat. pisum, Eng. pease.
peata, a pet = Eng. pet.
peic, a peck = [from] Eng. peck.
peighinn, a penny = Norse peningr, Ag. S. pening, etc. [Gaelic is
borrowed].
peileid, a blow, from Eng. pelt, pellet.
peileir, a ball, is from Lat. pilula, little ball,
peilisteir, a quoit, from Lat. palaestra, a Avrestling school [D.]
peinnteal, a snare ; see painntear.
peirigill, danger, from Lat. periculum.
peiris, testes, from Fr. pierre, peira, Lat. petra.
peur, a pear = [from] Eng. pear, Lat. pirum.
peurdag, a partridge, ancient perdag = [from] Lat. perdix.
pic, a pike = [from] Eng. pike, etc.
picleadh, pickle = [from] Eng.
pighe, pigheann, a pye = [from] Eng. pye.
pill, cloth, skin = [from] Lat. pellis. Whence alro G. pillean,
pack saddle.
pinne, a piu = [from] Lat. pinna, Eng. p)in-
pinnt, a pint = [from] Eng. jnnt.
piob, a pipe, E. Ir. 2^ip, from Lat. pijw, chirp ; hence Eng. pipe.
pioc, pick = Norse pjakka, Eng. pick [G. is borrowed.]
pioghaid = [from] Sc. pyat, Fr. jo/e^e.
pit. Dean of Lismore pit = [ultimately from] Latin puteus, Ag. S.
pytt, Eng. 2nt. [In Gael, No. 193, Dr Cameron connects the
pet and pit of place names ; this, however, is wrong, for pet
means a farm, and is Pictish. See above, p. 608.]
plaigh, a plague = [from] Lat. plciga, blow, Eng. plague.
plais, splash = [from] Eng. plash.
plangaid, blanket = [from] Eng. blanket.
plannt, a plant = [from] Eng. plant.
plasd, plaster, W. plasdr, Eng. plaster, Ag. 8. plaster ; all from
Lat. emplastrun.
pleidh, quarrel = [from] Sc. pley, quarrel, Eng. 2^(''l/-
pliad, plot of ground = [from] Eng. j^lot.
plub, a lump, splash = [from] Eng. plumji, Dut. plmnp.
pluc, jjluck = [from] Eng. pluck, Norse plokka.
plum, plunge = [from] Eng. plump, Sw. 2~>lumpa, mergi.
pluma, plummet, from Lat. plumbum.
plumbas, a plum = [from] ^\\<g. plum.
plundrainn, plunder, from Eng. plundering.
plur, flower, flur, from \jdX. floris.
pobull, people = [from] Lat. popidus.
poca, a bag = [from] Sc. 2^'J<^J<^i Eng. 2^ock, pocket. Hence poca,
pocket.