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Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *liyants. Cognate with Welsh lliant.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
liae (gender unknown, genitive unattested)
- flood
- 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. 81c3
Is gnáth lie i n-aibnib i ndigaid flechud mór.- A flood is usual in rivers after great rains.
Inflection
Inflection for this term is not attested. Etymologically, it should be an nt-stem but only a semblance of a neuter io-stem declension is found in Middle Irish. This may be analogical after the related term tuile however, which was indeed a neuter io-stem.
Descendants
Mutation
Mutation of liae
| radical |
lenition |
nasalization
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liae
also lliae after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
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liae
pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/
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unchanged
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*liy-o- 'flow'”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 243
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