lóeg
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *lāɸigos (“calf”) (compare Welsh llo, Cornish leugh), diminutive from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“cattle”) (compare Latvian lùops ‘cattle’, Albanian lopë ‘cow’).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l͈oːi̯ɣ/
Noun
lóeg m (genitive loíg, nominative plural loíg)
- calf
- (figuratively) favourite, darling
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Synonyms
- báethán
- bóbán
- fíthal
- gamuin
Descendants
- Irish: lao
- Manx: lheiy
- Scottish Gaelic: laogh
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| lóeg also llóeg after a proclitic | lóeg pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/ | lóeg also llóeg after a proclitic |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Notes
- Ranko Matasović, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden: Brill, 2009), p. 231.
- Bibliography
- “lóeg” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.