lachtna

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• lachtnae

Etymology

From lacht (“milk”).

Adjective

lachtna

1. milk coloured; gray, dun
2. (of garments) the colour of unbleached wool

Derived terms

• Lachtnae
• Lachtnán

Descendants

• Irish: lachna (“grey, dull, drab”)

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
lachtna also llachtna after a proclitic ending in a vowel	lachtna 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

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