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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish lerg. Cognate with Old Armenian ողորկ (ołork, “smooth”) and լերկ (lerk, “hairless”).
Noun
learg f (genitive singular leirge, nominative plural learga)
- tract of rising ground; sloping expanse, slope, side
- plateau
Declension
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “learg”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lerg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language