lóeg

Old Irish

From Proto-Celtic *lāɸigos (“calf”) (compare Welsh llo, Cornish leugh), diminutive from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“cattle”) (compare Latvian lùops (“cattle”), Albanian lopë (“cow”)).^[1]

lóeg m (genitive loíg, nominative plural loíg)

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	lóeg	lóeg^L	loíg^L
Vocative	loíg	lóeg^L	lóegu^H
Accusative	lóeg^N	lóeg^L	lóegu^H
Genitive	loíg^L	lóeg	lóeg^N
Dative	lóeg^L	lóegaib	lóegaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation of *lóeg*
radical	lenition	nasalization
lóeg also llóeg after a proclitic ending in a vowel	lóeg pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/	unchanged

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

^ Ranko Matasović, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden: Brill, 2009), p. 231.