lestar

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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Generally considered a Proto-Brythonic borrowing, due to the existence of the cluster /st/, which should have become /s/ in native vocabulary. Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *lestrom.[1] The neuter gender may have been from a very early borrowing, before Proto-Brythonic lost the neuter gender.

Noun

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lestar n (genitive lestair, nominative plural lestra)

  1. 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. 94c9
      .i. air lani ind lestair .i. sechis ar lani in[na] diglae-sín.
      i.e. for the fullness of the vessel; that is, namely, for the fullness of that punishment.

Inflection

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Neuter o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative lestarN lestarN lestarL, lestra
Vocative lestarN lestarN lestarL, lestra
Accusative lestarN lestarN lestarL, lestra
Genitive lestairL lestar lestarN
Dative lesturL lestraib lestraib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: lestar

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
lestar
also llestar after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
lestar
pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*lestro-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 238

Further reading

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