lipting

Middle Irish

Alternative forms

• lifting, lipthing

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse lypting (compare Norwegian Nynorsk lyfting), a diminutive of lopt (“attic”).

Noun

lipting f

1. (nautical) taffrail

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Irish: lifting

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lipting”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language