laoi

See also: Laoi

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /l̪ˠiː/

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish láed, laíd, from Old Irish loíd (“poem, song”) (compare Scottish Gaelic laoidh),[1] from Proto-Celtic *loidā, from Proto-Indo-European *loyd-eh₂, from the root *leyd- (“to let; to let go, release”).[2] The semantic evolution would be “to release” → “to set in motion” → “to incite” → “to praise, sing praises of”.[3]

Alternative forms

Noun

laoi f (genitive singular laoi, nominative plural laoithe)

  1. lay (sung poem), song
    laoi Fiannaíochta ― Fenian lay, Ossianic poem
    Laoi Oisín ― Lay/Song of Oisín
Declension
Declension of laoi (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative laoi laoithe
vocative a laoi a laoithe
genitive laoi laoithe
dative laoi laoithe
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an laoi na laoithe
genitive na laoi na laoithe
dative leis an laoi
don laoi 		leis na laoithe
Derived terms
  • laoi chumainn (“love song”)

Further reading

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “laoiḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 631; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “laoi”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Etymology 2

From Old Irish laí.

Noun

laoi

  1. (archaic, dialectal) alternative form of lae (genitive singular of lá (“day”))

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “laíd”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009), “loydā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 246
  3. ^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “lei̯d-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, pages 402–403
  4. ^ “laoi”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
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