lúath
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Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *ɸlowto- (“go, flow, be swift”), from Proto-Indo-European *plew-. Cognate with English float, Old Norse fljótr (“swift”), Ancient Greek πλέω (pléō, “I sail”), Latin pluit (“it rains”), and Sanskrit प्लवते (plavate, “swim, fly”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]lúath
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
lúath also llúath after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
lúath 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]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 lúath”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language