lethar

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *letrom (compare Welsh lledr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈl͈ʲeθar/

Noun

lethar (gender unknown, genitive lethair, no plural)

1. skin (of a living creature)
2. leather, hide

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• croiccenn

Descendants

• Irish: leathar
• Manx: liare
• Scottish Gaelic: leathar

Mutation

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

References

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