slucait
Old Irish
Etymology
Related to sluicid (“to swallow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsl͈u.ɡədʲ/
Noun
slucait f (genitive slugaite)
- 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:
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Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| sluicait | ṡluicait | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “slucait”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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