lachtna

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• lachtnae

Etymology

From lacht (“milk”).

Adjective

lachtna

1. milk coloured; gray, dun
2. (of garments) the colour of unbleached wool

Derived terms

• Lachtnae
• Lachtnán

Descendants

• Irish: lachna (“grey, dull, drab”)

Mutation

Mutation of lachtna

radical	lenition	nasalization
lachtna also llachtna after a proclitic ending in a vowel	lachtna 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), “lachtna”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language