slóg

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See also: slog and sløg

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *slougos.

Pronunciation

Noun

slóg m (genitive slóig, nominative plural slóig)

  1. army, host
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 62b20
      a n-imbed són ind slóig do·lega na ní téte, fo chosmailius dílenn
      the abundance of the army which destroys whatever it comes to, like a deluge
  2. (by extension) throng, crowd, company, assembly

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative slóg slógL slóigL
Vocative slóig slógL slóguH
Accusative slógN slógL slóguH
Genitive slóigL slóg slógN
Dative slógL slógaib slógaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

Descendants

Mutation

Mutation of slóg
radical lenition nasalization
slóg ṡlóg unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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