slóg

See also: slog and sløg

Old Irish

slóg m (genitive slóig, nominative plural slóig)

army, host
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 62^b20
  a n-imbed són ind slóig do·lega na ní téte, fo chosmailius dílenn
  the abundance of the army which destroys whatever it comes to, like a deluge
(by extension) throng, crowd, company, assembly

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	slóg	slóg^L	slóig^L
Vocative	slóig	slóg^L	slógu^H
Accusative	slóg^N	slóg^L	slógu^H
Genitive	slóig^L	slóg	slóg^N
Dative	slóg^L	slógaib	slógaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Middle Irish: slúagh
- Irish: slua, sluagh (superseded)
  - → English: slew
- Scottish Gaelic: sluagh
- Manx: sleih

Mutation of *slóg*
radical	lenition	nasalization
slóg	ṡlóg	unchanged

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