luí

• loighe
• luighe (superseded)

From Old Irish lige (“act of lying down; bed”), from Proto-Celtic *legyom, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie (down)”).

• IPA^(key): /l̪ˠiː/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /l̪ˠəi/ (reflecting the alternative form loighe)

luí

1. subjunctive analytic of luigh

luí m (genitive singular as substantive luí, genitive as verbal noun luite)

1. verbal noun of luigh
2. (act or state of) lying down, prostration

   Tá mé i mo luí.

   I am lying down.

3. setting (of heavenly bodies)

   luí na gréine ― sunset

   luí na gealaí ― moonset

4. inclination, tendency

   Tá luí chun léirscriosta aige.

   He has a propensity to destruction.

• am luí (“bedtime”)
• luí isteach (“to apply”)

• C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “1 lige”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN
• “luiġe” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 2nd ed., 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
• "luí" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.