loingthech
Old Irish
Etymology
From loingid (“to eat, consume”) + -ech.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈl͈oŋʲɡʲθʲex/
Adjective
loingthech
- gluttonous
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 6c9
- Ní hed not·beir i nem, cía ba loingthech.
- It is not this that brings you sg into heaven, that you may be gluttonous.
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 6c9
Mutation
| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| loingthech also lloingthech in h-prothesis environments |
loingthech pronounced with /l-/ |
loingthech also lloingthech |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “loingthech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language