lucht siúil
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Alternative forms
- lucht siubhail (superseded)[1]
Etymology
Literally, “people of walking”
Noun
lucht siúil m (genitive singular lucht siúil)
- (collective) Irish Travellers, itinerants
- duine den lucht siúil ― a Traveller, an itinerant
See also
References
- “lucht siubhail”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
Further reading
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “luċt”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 450
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “lucht siúil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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