leath-

• leith- (slender form)

From leath.

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /lʲah/^[1]

leath-

1. lying, turned, to one side; lopsided, tilted
2. one-sided, partial
3. half-, hemi-, semi-; half-grown
4. one of two, of a pair

• This affix in Irish is added to nouns and adjectives denoting half. It lenites the word to which it attaches.

  leathchúpla (“twin”), from cúpla (“twins”)

• It is often used with nouns which normally come in pairs to denote a single object:

  leathbhróg (“a single shoe”) (in contrast to dhá bhróig (“both shoes, a pair of shoes”))

  leathshúil (“a single eye”) (in contrast to an dá shúil (“both eyes, the eyes ”))

• Written with a hyphen when attaching to words in t:

  leath-tháille (“half-price”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “leath-”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “leath-”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm