loght

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish locht (“fault, blemish”).

Noun

loght m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. crime

   Hug ad yn loght ass my lieh. ― They pinned the crime on me.

2. guilt

   gyn loght ― innocent, blameless

3. trespass
4. fault

   Beg y yannoo jeh loght. ― Smooth over a fault.

5. vice

   T’eh currit da’n loght shen. ― He is addicted to that vice.

6. shortcoming

   dooinney sheshey gyn loght ― model husband

7. transgression

Derived terms

• ard-loght

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 locht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language