slua - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

From Middle Irish slúag, from Old Irish slóg, from Proto-Celtic *slougos.

slua m (genitive singular slua, nominative plural sluaite)

  1. host, force, army
  2. crowd, multitude, throng
  3. (uncountable) hosting
Mutated forms of slua
radical lenition eclipsis
slua shlua
after an, tslua
not applicable

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

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 27, page 14

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