losaid

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish lossat, [2] from Proto-Celtic *lok-s, connected to Latin lanx (“dish”) and Ancient Greek λέκος (lékos, “pan, pot”) and possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l- (“to bend”).[3][4]

Pronunciation

Noun

losaid f (genitive singular losaide, nominative plural losaidí)

  1. kneading trough; dough tray

Declension

Declension of losaid (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative losaid losaidí
vocative a losaid a losaidí
genitive losaide losaidí
dative losaid losaidí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an losaid na losaidí
genitive na losaide na losaidí
dative leis an losaid
don losaid 		leis na losaidí

Archaic genitive singular: loiste

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Yola: lossed

References

  1. ^ “losaid”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “losat”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “losaid”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎[1], Stirling, →ISBN
  4. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959), “el-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 307-309
  5. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 23, page 13

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