lúan

See also: Appendix:Variations of "luan"

Middle Irish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) From Old Irish lúan.

Noun

lúan m (genitive lúain)

1. Monday
2. doomsday, judgement day (based on the belief that the world will end on a Sunday)

   Synonym: bráth

Derived terms

• día lúain

Descendants

• Irish: Luan

Noun

lúan m

1. radiance

   Synonym: ném

2. light

   Synonyms: lés, lésbaire, solus, soillse

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 lúan “Monday, doomsday””, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 lúan “light, radiance””, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *louxsnos, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂ (“moon, shining thing”), derived from the root *lewk- (“to shine”); in the meaning "Monday", originally a calque of Latin (diēs) Lūnae.

Noun

lúan m (genitive lúain)

1. Monday
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 67^c18

     .i. hi luan ro·gabad in salm-so ł is dind oipred for·chomnacuir and.

     It was on Monday that this psalm was sung, or, it is of the work that happened then.

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	lúan	lúanL	lúainL
Vocative	lúain	lúanL	lúanuH
Accusative	lúanN	lúanL	lúanuH
Genitive	lúainL	lúan	lúanN
Dative	lúanL	lúanaib	lúanaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: lúan
  • Irish: Luan

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
lúan also llúan after a proclitic ending in a vowel	lúan pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

See also

• (days of the week) láe sechtmaine; domnach,‎ lúan,‎ Máirt,‎ cétaín,‎ dardaín,‎ aín dídine,‎ Satharn ^{(Category: sga:Days of the week) [edit]}

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 lúan”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language