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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
Noun
lóeg m (genitive loíg, nominative plural loíg)
- calf
- Synonyms: báethán, bóbán, fíthal, gamuin
- (figuratively) favourite, darling
Inflection
| Masculine o-stem
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Singular
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Dual
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Plural
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| Nominative
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lóeg
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lóegL
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loígL
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| Vocative
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loíg
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lóegL
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lóeguH
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| Accusative
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lóegN
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lóegL
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lóeguH
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| Genitive
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loígL
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lóeg
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lóegN
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| Dative
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lóegL
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lóegaib
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lóegaib
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
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Descendants
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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lóeg
also llóeg after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
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lóeg
pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/
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unchanged
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- ^ Ranko Matasović, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden: Brill, 2009), p. 231.
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