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Old Irish
Etymology
Related to sluicid (“to swallow”).
Pronunciation
Noun
slucait f (genitive slugaite)
- throat, gullet
- Synonym: bráge
- c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 177
Bran .i. fïach .i. brancos grece, gutur latine, ⁊ is de is·ber din éon ar mét slugaite.- Bran (“raven”) (cf. Ancient Greek βράγχος (bránkhos), Latin guttur (“throat”)) is from, it is said of the bird, the great size of its throat.
Inflection
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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| sluicait
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ṡluicait
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unchanged
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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