lestrae

Old Irish

Etymology

An abstract extension of lestar (“vessel”).

Noun

lestrae f (nominative plural lestrai)

1. vessel
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 18^b4

     .i. roth cruind forsa·ndenat na cerda in lestrai nui

     i.e. a round wheel on which the potters make the new vessels

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	lestraeL	lestraiL	lestrai
vocative	lestraeL	lestraiL	lestrai
accusative	lestraiN	lestraiL	lestrai
genitive	lestrae	lestraeL	lestraeN
dative	lestraiL	lestraib	lestraib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Mutation

Mutation of lestrae

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