lathach

See also: -lathach

Irish

From Old Irish lathach (“mire, puddle”), from Proto-Celtic *latyos (“moist”), from Proto-Indo-European *lat- (“damp, wet”), see also Old Norse leðja (“mud”), Albanian lag (“to moisten”).[1]

(Aran) IPA^(key): /l̪ˠɑːx/, /ˈl̪ˠɑhəx/[2]
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /l̪ˠaiç/ (as if spelled laith; probably a back-formation from the genitive laithche)[3]

lathach f (genitive singular lathaí or laithche)

mud (mixture of soil and water), puddle (homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit), slush (liquid mud or mire)
Synonyms: láib, puiteach, lábán, pluda

Declension of lathach

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)

MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “làthach”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN
Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 179
Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 139, page 55

G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “lathach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “lathach”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 420
Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “lathach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Entries containing “lathach” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
Entries containing “lathach” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

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