láitir
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Middle Irish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
láitir
- strong
- powerful
- Synonyms: brígach, brígmar, cumachtach
Declension[edit]
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants[edit]
Mutation[edit]
| Middle Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| láitir | unchanged | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading[edit]
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “láitir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Old Irish[edit]
Adjective[edit]
láitir
- strong
- powerful
- Synonyms: brígach, brígmar, cumachtach
Usage notes[edit]
The word is not directly attested in use within an Old Irish text. However, the term's existence during the Old Irish period may be inferred from the summoning of Lugaid Lát(h)ir ("Lugaid the Strong") in the Latin Life of Columba.
Declension[edit]
| i-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | láitir | láitir | láitir |
| Vocative | láitir | ||
| Accusative | láitir | láitir | |
| Genitive | láitir | láitire | láitir |
| Dative | láitir | láitir | láitir |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
| Nominative | láitiri | láitiri | |
| Vocative | láitiri | ||
| Accusative | láitiri | ||
| Genitive | láitir* láitire | ||
| Dative | láitirib | ||
| Notes | *not when substantivized | ||
Descendants[edit]
Mutation[edit]
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| láitir also lláitir after a proclitic |
láitir 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[edit]
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “láitir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language