líathróit

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish líathrit. Cognate with Welsh llithred.

Noun

líathróit f (genitive líathróite)

1. ball, sphere
2. 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

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