slucait

Old Irish

Etymology

Related to sluicid (“to swallow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsl͈u.ɡədʲ/

Noun

slucait f (genitive slugaite)

1. throat, gullet

   Synonym: bráge

   • c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 177

     Bran .i. fïach .i. brancos grece, gutur latine, ⁊ is de is·ber din éon ar mét slugaite.

     Bran (“raven”) (cf. Ancient Greek βράγχος (bránkhos), Latin guttur (“throat”)) is from, it is said of the bird, the great size of its throat.

Inflection

Feminine ī-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	slucaitL	slucaitL	slucaitiH
vocative	slucaitL	slucaitL	slucaitiH
accusative	slucaitiN	slucaitL	slucaitiH
genitive	slucaiteH	slucaiteL	slucaiteN
dative	slucaitiL	slucaitib	slucaitib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Mutation

Mutation of slucait

radical	lenition	nasalization
sluicait	ṡluicait	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), “slucait”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language