lachu
Old Irish
editEtymology
editPossibly from Proto-Indo-European *lek-. Cognate with Lithuanian lak (“to fly”).[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlachu f (genitive lachan, nominative plural lachain)
- duck
- c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 829
- c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 829
Inflection
editFeminine n-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | lachu | lachainL | lachain |
Vocative | lachu | lachainL | lachnaH |
Accusative | lachainN | lachainL | lachnaH |
Genitive | lachan | lachanL | lachanN |
Dative | lachainL, lachuL | lachnaib | lachnaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived terms
edit- lachnach (“abounding in ducks”)
Descendants
editMutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
lachu also llachu after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
lachu 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- ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “lachu”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page lach
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lachu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language