luch

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luch

1. A house in a state of disrepair; a hovel
   • 2015, Tom Hart, chapter IX, in Rosalie Lightning, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 181:

     I'm not going to live in some luch just because my baby died.

From Old Irish luch,^[1] from Proto-Celtic *lukūts (compare Welsh llyg (“shrew”), llygod (“mice”), and Breton logod (“mice”)).

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /l̪ˠʊx/^[2], /l̪ˠɯx/^[3]
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /l̪ˠɔx/^[4] (as if spelled loch)
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /l̪ˠʌx/ (as if spelled loch)
• Homophone: loch (Connacht, Ulster)

luch f (genitive singular luiche, nominative plural lucha)

1. mouse (rodent of the genus Mus)
2. (computing) mouse (input device)

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “luċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “luch”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “luch”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “luch”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

From Proto-Celtic *lukūts; cognate with Welsh llygod.

• IPA^(key): [l͈ux]

luch f (genitive lochad, nominative plural lochaid)

1. mouse, rat

Feminine t-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	luch	lochaidL, luch	lochaid
Vocative	luch	lochaidL, luch	lochtha
Accusative	lochaidN	lochaidL, luch	lochtha
Genitive	lochad	lochad	lochadN
Dative	lochaidL	lochthaib	lochthaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

• (mouse): luch becc
• (rat): luch frangcach

• Irish: luch
• Manx: lugh
• Scottish Gaelic: luch

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

From Middle Irish [Term?], from Old Irish luch. Cognates include Irish luch and Manx lugh.

• IPA^(key): /l̪ˠux/

luch f

1. mouse

• (diminutive) luchag

• Colin Mark (2003) “luch”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 406