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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish loarc.[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
láirig f (genitive singular láirige, nominative plural láirigeacha)
- thigh
- Synonyms: ceathrú, leis
Declension
References
- ^ “láirig”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lárac”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 114, page 45
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