slóg

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• slúag

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *slougos.

Noun

slóg m

1. army, host
2. (by extension) throng, crowd, company, assembly

   ó rachus tar trí nonburaibh do ní in slogh fair ― if it goes beyond 27 persons it constitutes a slóg

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

Terms derived from slóg

• slógacallam (“vocative case of collective nouns”)
• slógart
• slógbarr (“act of war”)
• slógbarr (“leader of a host”)

• slógblad (“martial reknown”)
• slógbuiden (“a company”)
• slógfer (“a warrior”)
• slógnem (“hostful heaven”)

• slógrí (“king of a host”)
• slógṡirid (“raider”)
• slógthech (“billet”)

Descendants

• Middle Irish: slúagh
  • Irish: slua
    • → English: slew
  • Scottish Gaelic: sluagh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
slóg	ṡlóg	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• “slóg, slúag” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.