lathach

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See also: -lathach

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish lathach (“mire, puddle”),[1] from Old Irish loth (“mud, mire; quagmire”).[2]

MacBain derived this from Proto-Celtic *latyos (“moist”), from Proto-Indo-European *lat- (“damp, wet”), see also Old Norse leðja (“mud”), Albanian lag (“to moisten”).[3]

Matasović suggests Proto-Celtic *lutā (“mud, dirt”) from Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“dirt, mud”).[4]

Pronunciation

Noun

lathach f (genitive singular lathaí or laithche)

  1. mud (mixture of soil and water), puddle (homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit), slush (liquid mud or mire)
    Synonyms: láib, puiteach, lábán, pluda

Declension

Declension of lathach (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative lathach
vocative a lathach
genitive lathaí, laithche
dative lathach
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an lathach
genitive na lathaí, laithche
dative leis an lathach
don lathach

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lathach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 loth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “làthach”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN, page 224
  4. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*lutā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 249-50
  5. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 179
  6. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 139, page 55

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