loisc

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish loiscid (compare Scottish Gaelic loisg),[1] from Proto-Celtic *laɸsketi (to shine, burn) (whence Welsh llosgi (to burn)), from Proto-Indo-European *lh₂p-sḱéti, (bearing the present-forming suffix *-sḱe-), from the telic root *leh₂p- (to light, shine). Related to Ancient Greek λάμπω (lámpō, I shine).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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loisc (present analytic loisceann, future analytic loiscfidh, verbal noun loscadh, past participle loiscthe)

  1. to burn, scorch
  2. to sting
  3. (hematology, surgery) to cauterize

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “loiscid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 77, page 42

Further reading

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