lúan
Middle Irish
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) From Old Irish lúan.
Noun
lúan m (genitive lúain)
- Monday
- doomsday, judgement day (based on the belief that the world will end on a Sunday)
- Synonym: bráth
Derived terms
Descendants
- Irish: Luan
Noun
lúan m
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 lúan “Monday, doomsday””, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 lúan “light, radiance””, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Old Irish
Noun
lúan m (genitive lúain)
- Monday
- 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. 67c18
- .i. hi luan ro·gabad in salm-so ł is dind oipred for·chomnacuir and.
- It was on Monday that this psalm was sung, or, it is of the work that happened then.
- 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. 67c18
Inflection
Masculine o-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | lúan | lúanL | lúainL |
Vocative | lúain | lúanL | lúanuH |
Accusative | lúanN | lúanL | lúanuH |
Genitive | lúainL | lúan | lúanN |
Dative | lúanL | lúanaib | lúanaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
lúan also llúan after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
lúan pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
See also
- (days of the week) láe sechtmaine; domnach, lúan, Máirt, cétaín, dardaín, aín dídine, Satharn (Category: sga:Days of the week) [edit]
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 lúan”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Middle Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Middle Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Middle Irish lemmas
- Middle Irish nouns
- Middle Irish masculine nouns
- mga:Days of the week
- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish nouns
- Old Irish masculine nouns
- Old Irish terms with quotations
- Old Irish masculine o-stem nouns
- sga:Days of the week