éigid
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *yeigeti, from a reduplicated present *h₁í-h₁eyǵʰ-ti from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eyǵʰ-. Distantly related to Ancient Greek ἰχανάω (ikhanáō, “to desire”) and Sanskrit ईहति (īhati, “to desire”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]éigid
Inflection
[edit]Simple, class A II present, s preterite
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
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| Present indicative | Abs. | éigid; éigthi (with suffixed pronoun -i) | |||||||
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| Imperfect indicative | |||||||||
| Preterite | Abs. | égis | éigsit | ||||||
| Conj. | ·éig | ·héged | |||||||
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| Perfect | Deut. | ro·éig | ro·héged | ||||||
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| Future | Abs. | ||||||||
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| Present subjunctive | Abs. | ||||||||
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Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| éigid (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-éigid |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “éigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language