láthar

From Proto-Celtic *ɸlātrom (“flat position”) (compare, with unexplained semantic development, Proto-Brythonic *llọdr (“leg covering”), whence Welsh llawdr (“trousers”), Breton loer (“sock”), Old Cornish loder (“boot”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”).

• IPA^(key):

láthar n

1. arrangement, disposition, dispensation
2. machination, wiles

• c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 9^d24

  arna dich cách assa dligud i n-adaltras tri láthar demuin et tri bar nebcongabthetit-si

  lest everyone go out of his duty into adultery through the Devil’s machination and through your incontinence

• c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 20^b2

  Is airi da·rogart-som noíb, ar frith⟨t⟩uidecht innaní as·rubartatar nád robae remdéicsiu ná láthar nDǽ dïa dúlib.

  It is for this reason that he has called himself a saint, because of the opposition of those who have said that there is neither providence nor dispensation of God for his creatures.

• láthraid

• Middle Irish: láither, láthair
  • Irish: láthair
  • Scottish Gaelic: làthair

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “láthar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language