lestrae
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Old Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
An abstract extension of lestar (“vessel”).
Noun[edit]
lestrae f (nominative plural lestrai)
- vessel
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 18b4
- .i. roth cruind forsa·ndenat na cerda in lestrai nui
- i.e. a round wheel on which the potters make the new vessels
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 18b4
Inflection[edit]
| Feminine iā-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | lestraeL | lestraiL | lestrai |
| Vocative | lestraeL | lestraiL | lestrai |
| Accusative | lestraiN | lestraiL | lestrai |
| Genitive | lestrae | lestraeL | lestraeN |
| Dative | lestraiL | lestraib | lestraib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation[edit]
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| lestrae also llestrae after a proclitic |
lestrae pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading[edit]
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lestrae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language