laithe

English

Noun

laithe (plural laithes)

1. (Northern England) Alternative form of lathe (“A granary; a field barn”)
   • 1999, Nicholas Crane, Two Degrees West, London: Viking, page 96:

     Sprinkled across the scalloped valley were toylike field barns, 'laithes', that had once stored hay and given cattle shelter through the winter.

Coordinate terms

• boskin
• byre
• rudster

 

Anagrams

• Leitha, aileth, halite, thelia

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *latyom, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁t- (“warm part of the year”). Cognate with Proto-Slavic *lěto n (“summer, year”). Probably unrelated to lá.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlaθʲe]

Noun

laithe n

1. day, daytime, daylight

   Synonym: lá

Inflection

Neuter io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	laitheN	laitheL	laitheL
Vocative	laitheN	laitheL	laitheL
Accusative	laitheN	laitheL	laitheL
Genitive	laithiL	laitheL	laitheN
Dative	laithiuL	laithib	laithib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Scottish Gaelic: latha

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
laithe also llaithe after a proclitic ending in a vowel	laithe 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), “29474”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language