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ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY
loireanach, male child just able to walk; cf. luran.
lòiseam, pomp show:
loisneach, cunning: "foxy"; Ir. loisi, los, a fox: *luxo-; Gr. λúγξ, lynx, O. H. G. luhs, Ag. S. lox, lynx.
loistean, a lodging, tent, Ir. lóistín; from the Eng. lodging.
loithreach, ragged (Hend.):
lom, bare, Ir. lom, O. Ir. lomm, W. llwm: *lummo-, *lups-mo-, root lup, peel, break off; Lit. lupti, peel, Ch. Sl. lupiti, detrahere; Skr. lumpami, cut off. Hes. has Gr. λυμνός = γυμνός, which Stokes suggests alternately. Hence lomradh, fleecing, O. Ir. lommraim, tondeo, abrado, lommar, bared, stripped; which last Stokes compares rather to Lat. lamberat, scindit ac laniat.
lombair, bare; cf. O. Ir. lommar, bared (see lom). Possibly the b is intrusive, as in Eng. number, slumber.
lomchar, bare place; from lom and cuir, cor.
lomhainn, a leash, Ir. comna, a cord (O'Cl.), O. Ir. loman, funis, lorum, W. llyfan, Cor. louan, Br. louffan, tether: *lomanâ.
lomhair, brilliant:
lomnochd, naked, so Ir., E. Ir. lomnocht; from lom and nochd, naked.
lompair, a bare plain; see lombair, which is another spelling of this word.
lompais, niggardliness, Ir. lompais; from *lommas, from lom.
lòn, food, Ir., M. Ir. lón, O. Ir. lóon, adeps, commeatus, O. Br. lon, adeps: *louno-. Strachan and Stokes cf. O.Sl. plŭti, caro, Lat. plutà, a crust, Lettic pluta, a bowel. Bez. queries if it is allied to L.Ger. flôm, raw suet, O. H. G. floum. It was usual to refer it to the same root as Gr. πλοῦτος, wealth; and Ernault has suggested connection with blonag (*vlon), which is unlikely.
lòn, marsh, mud, meadow (Arg.), water (Skye): *lut-no-, root lut, muddy O. Ir. loth, mud, Lat. lutum; further root lu, lou, as in lod. It may be from *louno-, with the same root; cf. M. Ir. conluan, hounds' excrement.
lon, lon-dubh, the blackbird, Ir., M. Ir., O. Ir. lon. Stokes refers it to *lux-no- (root leuq, light, Lat. lux, etc.), but this in the G. would give lonn.
lon, elk, M. G. lon (D. of L.), Ir. lon: *lono-; cf. O.Slav. lani, hind, and, further, Celtic *elanî, roe (see eilid).
lon, a rope of raw hides (St Kilda): possibly a condensation of lomhainn
lon, lon-chraois, gluttony, M. Ir. con cráis. Kuno Keyer, (Vision of M'Conglinne) translates lon separately as "demon". For craois see craos. lon, water (Carm.) + craos?
