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Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *lottô, *lut-to-, from *lut (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewH- (“to cut off, separate, free”), see also Ancient Greek λύω (lúō), English loose. Or, from *lewd- (“to duck; feign; be low; be small”), source of Proto-Germanic *lutōną (“to conceal”).
Noun
loitiméir m (genitive singular loitiméara, nominative plural loitiméirí)
- destroyer, vandal
- botcher
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References
- ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “lot”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN
- ^ Stokes, Whitley, Bezzenberger, Adalbert (1894) Urkeltischer Sprachschatz (Wörterbuch der indogermanischen Sprachen; Zweiter Theil) (in German), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 258
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