lúan

See also: Appendix:Variations of "luan"

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish lúan.

Noun

lúan m (genitive lúain)

1. Monday
2. doomsday, judgement day (based on the belief that the world will end on a Sunday)

   Synonym: bráth

Derived terms

• día lúain

Descendants

• Irish: Luan

Noun

lúan m

1. radiance

   Synonym: ném

2. light

   Synonyms: lés, lésbaire, solus, soillse

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

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *louxsnos, from Proto-Indo-European *lówksneh₂ (“moon, shining thing”), derived from the root *lewk- (“to shine”); in the meaning "Monday", originally a calque of Latin (diēs) Lūnae. Probably related to Welsh llun (“shape, figure, form”).

Noun

lúan m (genitive lúain)

1. Monday

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:lúan.

Inflection

Masculine o-stem

	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:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: lúan
  • Irish: Luan

See also

• days of the week: láe sechtmaine (appendix): lúan · Máirt · cétaín · dardaín · aín dídine · Satharn · domnach ^[edit]

Mutation

Mutation of lúan

radical	lenition	nasalization
lúan also llúan in h-prothesis environments	lúan pronounced with /l-/	lúan also llúan

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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