Irish
- laighead, luighead
- loighead, lughad, luighiod (obsolete)[1]
Etymology
From Old Irish lagat (“smallness, scantiness, fewness”).
Pronunciation
Noun
laghad m (genitive singular laghad)
- paucity, smallness, fewness
Declension
Declension of laghad (fourth declension, no plural)
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Derived terms
References
- ^ “laghad”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Dillon, Myles; Donncha Ó Cróinín (1961), Teach Yourself Irish, Sevenoaks, England: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 231
- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 178
- ^ Sommerfelt, Alf (1922), The Dialect of Torr, County Donegal, volume I: Phonology, Christiania [Oslo]: Videnskapsselskapet i Kristiania, section 36, page 16
- ^ Ó Searcaigh, Séamus (1925), Foghraidheacht Ghaedhilge an Tuaiscirt [Pronunciation of Northern Irish][1] (in Irish), Béal Feirste [Belfast]: Brún agus Ó Nualláin [Browne and Nolan], section 60, page 27
Further reading
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “laiġead”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 624; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “laghad”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN