slúagh

See also: sluagh

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish slóg, from Proto-Celtic *slougos.

Noun

slúagh m

1. army, host
2. throng, crowd, company, assembly

Descendants

• Irish: slua, sluagh (superseded)
  • → English: slew
• Scottish Gaelic: sluagh
• Manx: sleih

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “slóg, slúag”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language