láthar
Old Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Celtic *ɸlātrom (“flat position”) (compare, with unexplained semantic development, Proto-Brythonic *llọdr (“leg covering”), whence Welsh llawdr (“trousers”), Breton loer (“sock”), Old Cornish loder (“boot”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editláthar n
- arrangement, disposition
- machination, wiles
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 9d24
- arna dich cách assa dligud i n-adaltras tri láthar demuin et tri bar nebcongabthetit-si
- lest everyone go out of his duty into adultery through the Devil’s machination and through your incontinence
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 9d24
Inflection
editNeuter o-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | látharN | látharN | látharL, láthra |
Vocative | látharN | látharN | látharL, láthra |
Accusative | látharN | látharN | látharL, láthra |
Genitive | láthairL | láthar | látharN |
Dative | látharL | láthraib | láthraib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived terms
editDescendants
editMutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
láthar also lláthar after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
láthar 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- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “láthar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pleh₂-
- Old Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish nouns
- Old Irish neuter nouns
- Old Irish terms with quotations
- Old Irish neuter o-stem nouns