asluí

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Old Irish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From ess- + Proto-Celtic *luweti. Matasović assumes that the simplex is unattested.[1] However, Pedersen connects as·luí with luïthir (to move), an attested simplex verb.[2]

Verb[edit]

as·luí (prototonic ·elai, verbal noun élud)

  1. to escape

Inflection[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Middle Irish: élaid

Mutation[edit]

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
as·luí
also as·lluí
as·luí
pronounced with /-l(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*luw-o-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 250
  2. ^ Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 571

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