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Estonian
Verb
loit
- flare; flicker
Finnish
Verb
loit
- second-person singular past indicative of luoda
Anagrams
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish loittid.
Pronunciation
Verb
loit (present analytic loiteann, future analytic loitfidh, verbal noun lot, past participle loite)
- to wound, hurt, injure, impair
- Synonym: goin
- to destroy, damage, deface, mar, mutilate
- Synonyms: scrios, mill
- to spoil (ruin; pamper)
- Synonym: mill
Conjugation
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
Derived terms
Noun
loit
- inflection of lot:
- vocative/genitive singular
- nominative/dative plural
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “loittid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “loitim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 444
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “loit”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 81
Yami
Noun
loit
- dirt; filth