laogh

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Irish

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Noun

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laogh m (genitive singular laoigh, nominative plural laoigh or laoghanna)

  1. Superseded spelling of lao.

Scottish Gaelic

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Laogh (1) fèidh.
Laogh (1) bà.

Etymology

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From Old Irish lóeg. Cognates include Irish lao and Manx lheiy.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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laogh m (genitive singular laoigh, plural laoigh)

  1. calf, fawn, kid (young of a cow or deer)
  2. friend
  3. term of endearment for a child.

Declension

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
laogh unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “laogh”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Colin Mark (2003) “laogh”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 380
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lóeg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language