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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish lúasc (“swaying, oscillation”). Compare Welsh llusg (“dragging, drawing”).
Noun
luasc f (genitive singular luaisce, nominative plural luasca)
- (literary) swinging motion, oscillation
Declension
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Descendants
Verb
luasc (present analytic luascann, future analytic luascfaidh, verbal noun luascadh, past participle luasctha)
- swing, oscillate
Conjugation
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
Derived terms
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “luasc”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lúasc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language