Old Irish

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Etymology

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From loingid (to eat, consume) +‎ -ech.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈl͈oŋʲɡʲθʲex/

Adjective

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loingthech

  1. gluttonous
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 6c9
      Ní hed not·beir i nem, cía ba loingthech.
      It is not this that brings you sg into heaven, that you may be gluttonous.

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
loingthech
also lloingthech after a proclitic
loingthech
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

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