slóg
Old Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Celtic *slougos.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editslóg m (genitive slóig, nominative plural slóig)
- army, host
- 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. 62b20
- a n-imbed són ind slóig do·lega na ní téte, fo chosmailius dílenn
- the abundance of the army which destroys whatever it comes to, like a deluge
- 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. 62b20
- (by extension) throng, crowd, company, assembly
Inflection
editMasculine o-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | slóg | slógL | slóigL |
Vocative | slóig | slógL | slóguH |
Accusative | slógN | slógL | slóguH |
Genitive | slóigL | slóg | slógN |
Dative | slógL | slógaib | slógaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Middle Irish: slúagh
Mutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
slóg | ṡlóg | 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), “slóg, slúag”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language