lethan
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *ɸlitanos (“broad”) (compare Welsh llydan and Breton ledan).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]lethan (equative leithir, comparative letha)
Inflection
[edit]| singular | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | lethan | lethan | lethan |
| vocative | lethain* lethan** | ||
| accusative | lethan | lethain | |
| genitive | lethain | lethnae | lethain |
| dative | lethan | lethain | lethan |
| plural | masculine | feminine/neuter | |
| nominative | lethain | lethna | |
| vocative | lethnu lethna† | ||
| accusative | lethnu lethna† | ||
| genitive | lethan | ||
| dative | lethnaib | ||
*modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative
**modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative
† not when substantivized
Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| lethan also llethan after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
lethan 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.
References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*flitano-, *flitawī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 135
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lethan”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language