luasc
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Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Irish lúasc (“swaying, oscillation”). Compare Welsh llusg (“dragging, drawing”).
Noun[edit]
luasc f (genitive singular luaisce, nominative plural luasca)
- (literary) swinging motion, oscillation
Declension[edit]
Declension of luasc
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms[edit]
- luascdhoras m (“swing door, swinging door”)
- luascdhroichead f (“swing bridge”)
Descendants[edit]
- → Yola: lhuske
Verb[edit]
luasc (present analytic luascann, future analytic luascfaidh, verbal noun luascadh, past participle luasctha)
Conjugation[edit]
conjugation of luasc (first conjugation – A)
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
Derived terms[edit]
- ar luascadh (“swinging, oscillating”)
- luascaire m (“swinger”)
- luascán m (“a swinging, a swing”)
Further reading[edit]
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “luasc”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “lúasc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language