slucait

Old Irish[edit]

Related to sluicid (“to swallow”).

slucait f (genitive slugaite)

throat, gullet
Synonym: bráge
- c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 177
  Bran .i. fïach .i. brancos grece, gutur latine, ⁊ is de is·ber din éon ar mét slugaite.
  Bran (“raven”) (cf. Ancient Greek βράγχος (bránkhos), Latin guttur (“throat”)) is from, it is said of the bird, the great size of its throat.

Feminine ī-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	slucait^L	slucait^L	slucaiti^H
Vocative	slucait^L	slucait^L	slucaiti^H
Accusative	slucaiti^N	slucait^L	slucaiti^H
Genitive	slucaite^H	slucaite^L	slucaite^N
Dative	slucaiti^L	slucaitib	slucaitib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
sluicait	ṡluicait	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.