lestar

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Old Irish

Etymology

Generally considered a borrowing from Proto-Brythonic *llestr (whence also Welsh llestr (“vessel, receptacle”)), due to the existence of the cluster /st/, which should have become /s/ in native vocabulary. The Brythonic word is from Proto-Celtic *lestrom (“pot”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *les- (“to gather”) + *-trom. 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)

  1. 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 diglae-sín.
      i.e. for the fullness of the vessel; that is, namely, for the fullness of that punishment.

Inflection

Neuter o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative lestarN lestarN lestarL, lestra
vocative lestarN lestarN lestarL, lestra
accusative lestarN lestarN lestarL, lestra
genitive lestairL lestar lestarN
dative lesturL lestraib lestraib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: lestar

Mutation

Mutation of lestar
radical lenition nasalization
lestar
also llestar after a proclitic
ending in a vowel 		lestar
pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/ 		unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*lestro-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 238

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