Lugaid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Primitive Irish ᚂᚒᚌᚒᚇᚓᚉᚉᚐᚄ (lugudeccas), from Proto-Celtic *Lugudeks (“one who serves the god Lugus”) from *Lugus +‎ *dekos (“honor”), from Proto-Indo-European *déḱos (“that which is proper”). Compare Gaulish Lucudeca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈl͈uɣiðʲ/

Proper noun

Lugaid m (genitive Luigdech)

1. a male given name

Declension

Masculine k-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	Lugaid	—	—
Vocative	Lugaid	—	—
Accusative	LuigdigN	—	—
Genitive	Luigdech	—	—
Dative	LuigdigL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: Lughaidh

Mutation

Mutation of Lugaid

radical	lenition	nasalization
Lugaid also Llugaid after a proclitic ending in a vowel	Lugaid pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/	unchanged

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

Further reading

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