lestrae
Old Irish
editEtymology
editAn abstract extension of lestar (“vessel”).
Noun
editlestrae f (nominative plural lestrai)
- 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. 18b4
- .i. roth cruind forsa·ndenat na cerda in lestrai nui
- i.e. a round wheel on which the potters make the new vessels
- 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. 18b4
Inflection
editFeminine iā-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | lestraeL | lestraiL | lestrai |
Vocative | lestraeL | lestraiL | lestrai |
Accusative | lestraiN | lestraiL | lestrai |
Genitive | lestrae | lestraeL | lestraeN |
Dative | lestraiL | lestraib | lestraib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
lestrae also llestrae after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
lestrae 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
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lestrae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language