lóeg
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *lāɸigos (“calf”) (compare Welsh llo, Cornish leugh), diminutive from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“cattle”) (compare Latvian lùops (“cattle”), Albanian lopë (“cow”)).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [l͈oːi̯ɣ]
Noun
lóeg m (genitive loíg, nominative plural loíg)
Inflection
| Masculine o-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | lóeg | lóegL | loígL |
| Vocative | loíg | lóegL | lóeguH |
| Accusative | lóegN | lóegL | lóeguH |
| Genitive | loígL | lóeg | lóegN |
| Dative | lóegL | lóegaib | lóegaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| lóeg also llóeg after a proclitic |
lóeg pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Ranko Matasović, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden: Brill, 2009), p. 231.
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “lóeg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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