laithe
English edit
Noun edit
laithe (plural laithes)
- (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.
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Anagrams edit
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Celtic *latyom, from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁t- (“warm part of the year”). Cognate with Proto-Slavic *lěto n (“summer, year”).[1] Probably unrelated to lá.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
laithe n
Inflection edit
Neuter io-stem | |||
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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:
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Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
laithe also llaithe after a proclitic |
laithe 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
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “latyo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 233–234
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), chapter 29474, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language