loisg

From Old Irish loscaid (compare Irish loisc), from Proto-Celtic *lasketi (“to shine, burn”), from Proto-Indo-European *lh₂p-sḱéti, (bearing the present-forming suffix *-sḱéti), from the telic root *leh₂p- (“to light, shine”). Related to Ancient Greek λάμπω (lámpō, “I shine”).

• IPA^(key): [ɫ̪ɔʃkʲ]

loisg (past loisg, future loisgidh, verbal noun losgadh, past participle loisgte)

1. burn, scorch, charr, sear, cremate
2. fire (a gun, etc.)

• losgair
• cnàmh-loisg (“smoulder”)

• Rix, Helmut (2001) Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben (in German), Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN