lestar

Old Irish

Etymology

Generally considered a Proto-Brythonic borrowing, due to the existence of the cluster /st/, which should have become /s/ in native vocabulary. Ultimately from Proto-Celtic *lestrom.[1] The neuter gender may have been from a very early borrowing, before Proto-Brythonic lost the neuter gender.

Noun

lestar n (genitive lestair, nominative plural lestra)

vessel
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 94^c9
  .i. air lani ind lestair .i. sechis ar lani in[na] diglae-sín.
  i.e. for the fullness of the vessel; that is, namely, for the fullness of that punishment.

Inflection

Neuter o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	lestar^N	lestar^N	lestar^L, lestra
Vocative	lestar^N	lestar^N	lestar^L, lestra
Accusative	lestar^N	lestar^N	lestar^L, lestra
Genitive	lestair^L	lestar	lestar^N
Dative	lestur^L	lestraib	lestraib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

lestrae

Descendants

Middle Irish: lestar
- Irish: leastar

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
lestar also llestar after a proclitic	lestar pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*lestro-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 238