lagh
Lombard
editEtymology
editAkin to Italian lago, from Latin lacus.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlagh m
Middle English
editNoun
editlagh
- Alternative form of lawe
Old Danish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editNoun
editlagh n (genitive lax, plural logh) (Scania)
Declension
editDeclension of lagh (Scanian system)
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | lagh | laghit | logh | loghin |
accusative | lagh | laghit | logh | loghin |
dative | laghi | laghinu | loghum | loghunum |
genitive | lax | laghsins | lagha | laghanna |
The declension is unstable and should be treated as a guide. The case system was gradually being simplified from four to two cases. Even some nominative markers were sporadically kept in the Scanian dialect, although they mostly were replaced with the accusative endings from Old Norse. |
Descendants
editPiedmontese
editPronunciation
editNoun
editlagh m
Further reading
editScottish Gaelic
editEtymology
editMacBain states that this is a borrowing of English law, though it is possible that the term is from an earlier English source, such as Middle English laȝe or Old English lagu.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlagh m (genitive singular lagha, plural laghannan)
Declension
editDeclension of lagh (type IVb masculine noun)
Synonyms
editDerived terms
edit- frith-lagh (“bylaw”)
- laghadh (“legalize, legalise”)
- laghachd (“legalization, legalisation”)
Mutation
editScottish Gaelic mutation | |
---|---|
Radical | Lenition |
lagh | 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) “lagh”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN
Categories:
- Lombard terms with IPA pronunciation
- Lombard lemmas
- Lombard nouns
- Lombard masculine nouns
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- Old Danish terms inherited from Old Norse
- Old Danish terms derived from Old Norse
- Old Danish lemmas
- Old Danish nouns
- Old Danish neuter nouns
- Scanian Old Danish
- Piedmontese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Piedmontese lemmas
- Piedmontese nouns
- Piedmontese masculine nouns
- Scottish Gaelic terms borrowed from English
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from English
- Scottish Gaelic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Scottish Gaelic lemmas
- Scottish Gaelic nouns
- Scottish Gaelic masculine nouns
- Scottish Gaelic fourth-declension nouns
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