lúas

See also: luas and Luas

Galician

Noun

lúas

1. plural of lúa

Old Irish

Etymology

Akin to lúath (“quick, swift”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l͈uːa̯s/

Noun

lúas m

1. swiftness, speed

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	lúas	—	—
Vocative	lúas	—	—
Accusative	lúasN	—	—
Genitive	lúasoH, lúasaH	—	—
Dative	lúasL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: luas
• Manx: laueys
• Scottish Gaelic: lùths

Mutation

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

Further reading

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

Spanish

Noun

lúas f pl

1. plural of lúa