lóeg
Old Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Celtic *lāɸigos (“calf”) (compare Welsh llo, Cornish leugh), diminutive from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“cattle”) (compare Latvian lùops (“cattle”), Albanian lopë (“cow”)).[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlóeg m (genitive loíg, nominative plural loíg)
Inflection
editMasculine o-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | lóeg | lóegL | loígL |
Vocative | loíg | lóegL | lóeguH |
Accusative | lóegN | lóegL | lóeguH |
Genitive | loígL | lóeg | lóegN |
Dative | lóegL | lóegaib | lóegaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
editMutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
lóeg also llóeg after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
lóeg pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- ^ Ranko Matasović, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden: Brill, 2009), p. 231.
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lóeg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language