Laigin

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈl͈aɣʲənʲ/

Proper noun

Laigin m pl

  1. Leinstermen
  2. (plural only) Leinster (province of Ireland)
    • c. 1000, “The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig”, in Ernst Windisch, editor, Irische Teste, volume 1, published 1800, section 1:
      Boí rí amra for Laignib, .i. Mac Dathó a ainm.
      There was a wonderful king over Leinster; Mac Dathó was his name.

Declension

Descendants

  • Irish: Laighin
  • Manx: Lion
  • Scottish Gaelic: Laighean

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)unchangedunchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

See also

Further reading

Old Irish

Etymology

From the early Celtic tribe the Laigin, probably from láigen (spear), which is probably from the same source that gave Celtiberian/Latin lancea (light spear), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂k- (to hit)[1] More at w:Laigin § Etymology.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈl͈aɣʲinʲ]

Proper noun

Laigin m pl

  1. Leinstermen
    • c. 895–901, Vita tripartita Sancti Patricii, published in Bethu Phátraic: The tripartite life of Patrick (1939, Hodges, Figgis), edited and with translations by Kathleen Mulchrone, line 2234
      Is hé iarom in Fíacc sin epscop citaroir[d]ned la Laigniu.
      Fiacc is thereafter the first bishop among the Leinstermen to be ordained.
  2. (plural only) Leinster (a province of Ireland)

Inflection

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Descendants

  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  • Latin: Lagenia

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
also Llaigin after a proclitic
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

See also

References

  1. Connolly, Sean J. (2007) Oxford Companion to Irish History, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 308

Further reading

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