slóg

See also: slog and sløg

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• slúag

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *slougos.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsl̪oːɣ/

Noun

slóg m (genitive slóig, nominative plural slóig)

1. army, host
   • 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. 62^b20

     a n-imbed són ind slóig do·lega na ní téte, fo chosmailius dílenn

     the abundance of the army which destroys whatever it comes to, like a deluge

2. (by extension) throng, crowd, company, assembly

Inflection

Masculine o-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	slóg	slógL	slóigL
vocative	slóig	slógL	slóguH
accusative	slógN	slógL	slóguH
genitive	slóigL	slóg	slógN
dative	slógL	slógaib	slógaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• slógart
• slógbarr (“act of war”)
• slógbarr (“leader of a host”)
• slógblad (“martial renown”)
• slógbuiden (“a company”)
• slógfer (“a warrior”)
• slógnem (“hostful heaven”)
• slógrí (“king of a host”)
• slógthech (“billet”)
• slógṡirid (“raider”)

Descendants

• Middle Irish: slúag
  • Classical Gaelic: sluagh
  • Irish: slua, sluagh (superseded)
    • → English: slew
  • Scottish Gaelic: sluagh
  • Manx: sleih

Mutation

Mutation of slóg

radical	lenition	nasalization
slóg	ṡlóg	slóg

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “slóg, slúag”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language