Laigin

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Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish Laigin.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Laigin m pl

  1. Leinstermen
  2. (plural only) Leinster (a province of Ireland)
    • c. 1000, “The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig”, in Ernst Windisch, editor, Irische Texte, volume 1, published 1800, section 1:
      Boí rí amra for Laignib, .i. Mac Dathó a ainm.
      There was a wonderful king over Leinster; Mac Dathó was his name.

Declension

Descendants

  • Irish: Laighin
  • Manx: Lion
  • Scottish Gaelic: Laighean

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
Laigin unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

See also

Further reading

Old Irish

Etymology

From the early Celtic tribe the Laigin, probably from láigen (“spear”), which is probably from the same source that gave Celtiberian/Latin lancea (“light spear”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂k- (“to hit”)[1] More at w:Laigin § Etymology.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Laigin m pl

  1. Leinstermen
    • c. 895–901, Vita tripartita Sancti Patricii, published in Bethu Phátraic: The tripartite life of Patrick (1939, Hodges, Figgis), edited and with translations by Kathleen Mulchrone, line 2234
      Is hé iarom in Fíacc sin epscop citaroir[d]ned la Laigniu.
      Fiacc is thereafter the first bishop among the Leinstermen to be ordained.
  2. (plural only) Leinster (a province of Ireland)

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative — — LaiginL
Vocative — — LaigniuH
Accusative — — LaigniuH
Genitive — — LaigenN
Dative — — Laignib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
Laigin
also Llaigin after a proclitic
ending in a vowel 		Laigin
pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/ 		unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

See also

References

  1. ^ Connolly, Sean J. (2007) Oxford Companion to Irish History, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 308

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