lorga - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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From Old Irish lurga. Cognate with Manx lurgey.
lorga f (genitive singular lorga, nominative plural lorgaí)
- shin (front part of the leg below the knee), shinbone, shank (lower part of the leg)
- drumstick (leg bone of a chicken or other fowl)
- cannon bone (metatarsal or metacarpal of a horse)
- stem (above-ground stalk of a vascular plant, slender supporting member for an individual part of a plant, narrow supporting structure on certain man-made objects)
- stalk (stem or main axis of a plant)
- staff (long, straight, thick rod or stick)
- shaft (e.g. of a golf club)
Archaic declension:
- An Lorgain (“Lurgan”)
- “lorga”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lurga”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “lorga”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 446
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “lorga”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 54
