lóeg

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *lāɸigos (“calf”) (compare Welsh llo, Cornish leugh), diminutive from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“cattle”) (compare Latvian lùops (“cattle”), Albanian lopë (“cow”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [l͈oːi̯ɣ]

Noun

lóeg m (genitive loíg, nominative plural loíg)

1. calf

   Synonyms: báethán, bóbán, fíthal, gamuin

2. (figuratively) favourite, darling

Inflection

Masculine o-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	lóeg	lóegL	loígL
vocative	loíg	lóegL	lóeguH
accusative	lóegN	lóegL	lóeguH
genitive	loígL	lóeg	lóegN
dative	lóegL	lóegaib	lóegaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: lao
• Manx: lheiy
• Scottish Gaelic: laogh

Mutation

Mutation of lóeg

radical	lenition	nasalization
lóeg also llóeg after a proclitic ending in a vowel	lóeg pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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