luch

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See also: Luch and -luch

English

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Noun

luch

  1. A house in a state of disrepair; a hovel
    • 2015, Tom Hart, chapter IX, in Rosalie Lightning, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 181:
      I'm not going to live in some luch just because my baby died.

Irish

Luch (ainmhí)
Luch (gléas ionchuir)

Etymology

From Old Irish luch,[1] from Proto-Celtic *lukūts (compare Welsh llyg (“shrew”), llygod (“mice”), and Breton logod (“mice”)).

Pronunciation

Noun

luch f (genitive singular luiche, nominative plural lucha)

  1. mouse (rodent of the genus Mus)
  2. (computing) mouse (input device)

Declension

Declension of luch

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative luch lucha
Vocative a luch a lucha
Genitive luiche luch
Dative luch
luich (archaic, dialectal) 		lucha

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an luch na lucha
Genitive na luiche na luch
Dative leis an luch
leis an luich (archaic, dialectal)

don luch
don luich (archaic, dialectal)

leis na lucha

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 luch”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1938) Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, § 17, page 19
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1938) Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, § 69, page 57
  4. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 181

Further reading

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *lukūts; cognate with Welsh llygod.

Pronunciation

Noun

luch f (genitive lochad, nominative plural lochaid)

  1. mouse, rat

Inflection

Feminine t-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative luch lochaidL, luch lochaid
Vocative luch lochaidL, luch lochtha
Accusative lochaidN lochaidL, luch lochtha
Genitive lochad lochad lochadN
Dative lochaidL lochthaib lochthaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Synonyms

Descendants

  • Irish: luch
  • Manx: lugh
  • Scottish Gaelic: luch

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
luch
also lluch after a proclitic
ending in a vowel 		luch
pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/ 		unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Luch bheag.

Etymology

From Middle Irish , from Old Irish luch. Cognates include Irish luch and Manx lugh.

Pronunciation

Noun

luch f

  1. mouse

Declension

Declension of luch (type IVb feminine noun)
Indefinite
Singular Plural
Nominative luch luchan
Genitive lucha luchan
Dative lucha luchan; luchaibh✝
Definite
Singular Plural
Nominative (an) luch (na) luchan
Genitive (na) lucha (nan) luchan
Dative (an) lucha (na) luchan; luchaibh✝
Vocative luch luchan

✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century

Derived terms

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
luch unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • Colin Mark (2003) “luch”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 406
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