plisk

Cornish

Etymology

Cognate with Irish blaosc and Welsh plisg.

Noun

plisk (collective, singulative plisken f)

1. shells, husks
2. eggshells

Usage notes

• plisken refers to a shell of an egg or nut, whereas krogen refers to the shell of an animal.

Derived terms

• plisk know (“nutshells”)
• plisk oy (“eggshells”)
• plisk usyn (“husks”)
• pliskenna (“shell, husk”, verb)

Mutation

Mutation of plisk

unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed	mixed after 'th
plisk	blisk	flisk	unchanged	unchanged	unchanged

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