légaid
See also: legaid
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]légaid (conjunct ·léga, verbal noun légend)
- to read, to study
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 24d24
- Ro·légsat canóin f⟨e⟩tarlaici ⁊ núḟíadnissi amal runda·légsam-ni, acht ronda·saíbset-som tantum.
- They have read the canon of the Old Testament and of the New Testament as we have read it, except only that they have perverted it.
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 24d24
- to read aloud, to recite
Inflection
[edit]Simple, class A I present, s preterite, a subjunctive
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present indicative | Abs. | ||||||||
| Conj. | ·léga | ·légthar | ·légatar | ||||||
| Rel. | |||||||||
| Imperfect indicative | |||||||||
| Preterite | Abs. | légais | |||||||
| Conj. | ·légus | ·légais | ·lég | ·légsam | ·légsid | ·légsat | |||
| Rel. | |||||||||
| Perfect | Deut. | ro·llégusa (with emphatic clitic -sa) | ro·légais | ro·lég | runda·légsam (with infixed pronoun da-) | ro·légsid | ro·légsat | ||
| Prot. | ·roilgius | ·roilgisid | |||||||
| Future | Abs. | ||||||||
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| Conditional | |||||||||
| Present subjunctive | Abs. | ||||||||
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| Past subjunctive | ·légad | ||||||||
| Imperative | |||||||||
| Verbal noun | légend | ||||||||
| Past participle | |||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| légaid also llégaid after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
légaid 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
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “légaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 561