deiligid

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish deiligidir, from Proto-Celtic *del-, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰayl-, *dʰoyl- (“part, watershed”). Cognate with Old English dǣlan (“to divide, part”) (Modern English deal), Lithuanian dalinti (“divide”), Old Church Slavonic дѣлити (děliti).

Verb

deiligid

1. to separate, divide

Descendants

• Irish: dealaigh, deighil
• Scottish Gaelic: dealaich

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
deiligid	deiligid pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/, later /ɣ(ʲ)-/	ndeiligid
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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