aigid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ageti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti. The future stem is from Proto-Celtic *ɸiblāseti (earlier *ɸiɸlāseti, reduplicated future of *ɸalnati, from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to drive”) (compare Latin pellō).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɣʲiðʲ/

Verb

aigid (conjunct ·aig, verbal noun án or aige)

1. to drive
2. to celebrate, hold festivities

Conjugation

Simple, class B I present, t preterite, a future, a subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Abs.			aigid			aigit	agair	agtair
	Conj.			·aig, ·aich		·aigid	·agat	·agar, ·agathar	·agatar
	Rel.			aiges				agar
Imperfect indicative							·aigtis
Preterite	Abs.								achtai
	Conj.			·acht			·achtatar	·acht	·achta
	Rel.
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.
Future	Abs.			eblaid			eblait
	Conj.			·ebla
	Rel.			eblas
Conditional				·eblad
Present subjunctive	Abs.
	Conj.		·agae
	Rel.
Past subjunctive				·agad			·agtais	·agthae
Imperative			aig				agat	agar
Verbal noun		án
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Synonyms

• ad·aig
• réidid

Derived terms

• ad·aig
• do·aig
• imm·aig

Mutation

Mutation of aigid

radical	lenition	nasalization
aigid (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-aigid

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

References

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