líathróit

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish líathrit. Cognate with Welsh llithred.

Noun

líathróit f (genitive líathróite)

ball, sphere
a ball or slingshot made from the brains of an enemy

Descendants

Irish: liathróid

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
líathróit	unchanged	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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

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