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/
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Synonyms
- báethán
- bóbán
- fíthal
- gamuin
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
lóeg also llóeg after a proclitic |
lóeg pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/ |
lóeg also llóeg after a proclitic |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- Notes
- Ranko Matasović, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden: Brill, 2009), p. 231.
- Bibliography
- “lóeg” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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