luí

• loighe
• luighe (superseded)

From Old Irish lige (“act of lying down; bed”), from Proto-Celtic *legyom, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie (down)”).

• IPA^(key): /l̪ˠiː/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /l̪ˠəi/ (reflecting the alternative form loighe)
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /l̪ˠiː/, /l̪ˠəi̯/, /l̪ˠɔi̯/[1]

luí

1. subjunctive analytic of luigh

luí m (genitive singular as substantive luí, genitive as verbal noun luite)

1. verbal noun of luigh
2. (act or state of) lying down, prostration

   Tá mé i mo luí.

   I am lying down.

3. setting (of heavenly bodies)

   luí na gréine ― sunset

   luí na gealaí ― moonset

4. inclination, tendency

   Tá luí chun léirscriosta aige.

   He has a propensity to destruction.

• am luí (“bedtime”)
• luí isteach (“to apply”)

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 lige”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “luiġe”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 451
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “luí”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 44
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 65

From Proto-Celtic *ɸluwī. Cognate with Welsh llyw.

• IPA^(key): [l͈uːi̯]

luí f (genitive luae)

1. rudder

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “luí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language