lestar
Old Irish
editEtymology
editGenerally considered a Proto-Brythonic borrowing, due to the existence of the cluster /st/, which should have become /s/ in native vocabulary. Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *lestrom.[1] The neuter gender may have been from a very early borrowing, before Proto-Brythonic lost the neuter gender.
Noun
editlestar n (genitive lestair, nominative plural lestra)
- vessel
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 94c9
- .i. air lani ind lestair .i. sechis ar lani in[na] diglae-sín.
- i.e. for the fullness of the vessel; that is, namely, for the fullness of that punishment.
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 94c9
Inflection
editNeuter o-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | lestarN | lestarN | lestarL, lestra |
Vocative | lestarN | lestarN | lestarL, lestra |
Accusative | lestarN | lestarN | lestarL, lestra |
Genitive | lestairL | lestar | lestarN |
Dative | lesturL | lestraib | lestraib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived terms
editDescendants
editMutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
lestar also llestar after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
lestar 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) “*lestro-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 238
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lestar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language