loíd

See also: loid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *loidī or *loidā, from Proto-Indo-European *leyd- (“to let; to let go, release”).^[1] The semantic evolution would be “to release” → “to set in motion” → “to incite” → “to praise, sing praises of”.^[2]

Alternative forms

láed

Noun

loíd f (genitive loíde)

lay (sung poem), song

Declension

Feminine ī-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	loíd^L	loíd^L	loídi^H
vocative	loíd^L	loíd^L	loídi^H
accusative	loídi^N	loíd^L	loídi^H
genitive	loíde^H	loíde^L	loíde^N
dative	loídi^L	loídib, láedib	loídib, láedib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Middle Irish: láed, laíd
- Irish: laoi
- Scottish Gaelic: laoidh

Mutation

Mutation of *loíd*
radical	lenition	nasalization
loíd also lloíd in h-prothesis environments	loíd pronounced with /l-/	loíd also lloíd

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009), “loydā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 246
^ 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, page 402-403}}