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Old Irish
Etymology
Generally considered a Proto-Brythonic borrowing, due to the existence of the cluster /st/, which should have become /s/ in native vocabulary. Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *lestrom.[1] The neuter gender may have been from a very early borrowing, before Proto-Brythonic lost the neuter gender.
Noun
lestar n (genitive lestair, nominative plural lestra)
- vessel
- 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. 94c9
.i. air lani ind lestair .i. sechis ar lani in[na] diglae-sín.- i.e. for the fullness of the vessel; that is, namely, for the fullness of that punishment.
Inflection
| Neuter 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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lestarN
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lestarN
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lestarL, lestra
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| Vocative
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lestarN
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lestarN
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lestarL, lestra
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| Accusative
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lestarN
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lestarN
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lestarL, lestra
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| Genitive
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lestairL
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lestar
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lestarN
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| Dative
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lesturL
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lestraib
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lestraib
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
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Derived terms
Descendants
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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lestar
also llestar after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
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lestar
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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