slua
Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Irish slúagh, from Old Irish slóg, from Proto-Celtic *slougos.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /sˠl̪ˠuə/
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /sˠl̪ˠɔː/ (in the phrase slua sí (“fairy host”) /sˠl̪ˠɔːˈʃiː/)[1]
Noun
editslua m (genitive singular slua, nominative plural sluaite)
Declension
editDeclension of slua
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → English: slew
Mutation
editIrish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
slua | shlua after an, tslua |
not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 14
Further reading
edit
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “sluaġ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 658
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “slua”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “slua”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “slua”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “slóg, slúag”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 79
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 42
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