lestrae

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Old Irish

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

An abstract extension of lestar (vessel).

Noun

[edit]

lestrae f (nominative plural lestrai)

  1. vessel
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 18b4
      .i. roth cruind forsa·ndenat na cerda in lestrai nui
      i.e. a round wheel on which the potters make the new vessels

Inflection

[edit]
Feminine iā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative lestraeL lestraiL lestrai
Vocative lestraeL lestraiL lestrai
Accusative lestraiN lestraiL lestrai
Genitive lestrae lestraeL lestraeN
Dative lestraiL lestraib lestraib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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

Further reading

[edit]