láitir
Middle Irish edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
láitir
- strong
- powerful
- Synonyms: brígach, brígmar, cumachtach
Declension edit
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants edit
Mutation edit
| Middle Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| láitir | unchanged | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “láitir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Old Irish edit
Adjective edit
láitir
- strong
- powerful
- Synonyms: brígach, brígmar, cumachtach
Usage notes edit
The word is not directly attested in use within an Old Irish text. However, the term's existence during the Old Irish period may be inferred from the summoning of Lugaid Lát(h)ir ("Lugaid the Strong") in the Latin Life of Columba.
Declension edit
| i-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | láitir | láitir | láitir |
| Vocative | láitir | ||
| Accusative | láitir | láitir | |
| Genitive | láitir | láitire | láitir |
| Dative | láitir | láitir | láitir |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
| Nominative | láitiri | láitiri | |
| Vocative | láitiri | ||
| Accusative | láitiri | ||
| Genitive | láitir* láitire | ||
| Dative | láitirib | ||
| Notes | *not when substantivized | ||
Descendants edit
Mutation edit
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| láitir also lláitir after a proclitic |
láitir pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “láitir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language