liac

Old Irish

Noun

lïac

1. Alternative spelling of lïacc: genitive singular/dual/plural of lie (“stone”)
2. Misspelling of lieic: dative singular of lie (“stone”)
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 65^a1

     Níbu machdath do·rónta día dind lïac.

     It was not a wonder that a god would be made of the stone.