adilgnigidir
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From aidlicen (“needy, poor”) + -igidir.
Pronunciation
[edit]Some forms show metathesis of /ilʲ/ to /lʲi/ in the second syllable.
Verb
[edit]adilgnigidir (conjunct ·adilgnigedar or ·aidlicnigedar)
- to need, want (with úa + the thing needed/wanted)
- 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. 4b10
- Aidligni⟨gi⟩tir dano úadisi.
- therefore they need it
- 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. 4b10
Conjugation
[edit]Simple, class A II present, deponent
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
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| Present indicative | Abs. | aidligni⟨gi⟩tir | |||||||
| Conj. | ·aidlicnigedar, ·adilgnigedar | ·adilgnigmar | ·aidlicnigetar | ||||||
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| Future | Abs. | ||||||||
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| Present subjunctive | Abs. | ||||||||
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Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| adilgnigidir (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-adilgnigidir |
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), “aidilccnigidir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language