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’).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /l͈oːi̯ɣ/

Noun

lóeg m (genitive loíg, nominative plural loíg)

  1. calf
  2. (figuratively) favourite, darling

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms
  • báethán
  • bóbán
  • fíthal
  • gamuin

Descendants

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
lóeg
also llóeg after a proclitic		 lóeg
pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/		 lóeg
also llóeg after a proclitic
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
Notes
  1. Ranko Matasović, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden: Brill, 2009), p. 231.
Bibliography
  • “lóeg” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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