An Irish-English dictionary - National Library of Scotland

REMARKS ON THE LETTER L.
L is the nintb letter of the Irish alpliabet, and the first of the three consonants /, n, r, wliich admit of no aspirate, and are
called.by our pranimarians comj'oitieA'ÓA evVwcpomA, or light consonants; it is called iu Irish tuif, vnlgo co,o)\c^\ii, the
quiclien tree, Lat. ornus. This letter being the hiitial of a word which has reference to tlie female sex, is pronounced
double, though written singly, as 4 biiii, licr hand, is pronounced, it t,ó>iri, as in the Spanish word llamar and lleno. L,
beginning words referred to persons or tlimgs of the plural number, is also pronounced double, as A teAl!)*\]\, their book.
t^cii LACI-I iA-oil LADH
Ia, la, V. send; "l