lóeg

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *lāɸigos (“calf”) (compare Welsh llo, Cornish leugh), diminutive from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“cattle”) (compare Latvian lùops (“cattle”), Albanian lopë (“cow”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l͈oːi̯ɣ/

Noun

lóeg m (genitive loíg, nominative plural loíg)

1. calf
2. (figuratively) favourite, darling

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• báethán
• bóbán
• fíthal
• gamuin

Descendants

• Irish: lao
• Manx: lheiy
• Scottish Gaelic: laogh

Mutation

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

References

Notes

Bibliography

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