laigid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *legeti, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈl͈aɣʲəðʲ/

Verb

laigid (conjunct ·laig, verbal noun lige)

1. to lie down
2. to be lying down, to sleep
3. to fall, to set in
4. to set (of the sun)

Inflection

Simple, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, unreduplicated s future, s subjunctive

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	abs.			laigid
	conj.			·laig			·legat
	rel.			laiges
imperfect indicative				·laiged
preterite	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
perfect	deut.
	prot.			·dellig			·dellgetar
future	abs.
	conj.			·lee
	rel.
conditional
present subjunctive	abs.
	conj.	·lius					·deilset (perfective)
	rel.
past subjunctive
imperative
verbal noun		lige
past participle
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• con·laig

Related terms

• do·lugai

Descendants

• Irish: luigh
• Manx: lhie
• Scottish Gaelic: laigh

Mutation

Mutation of laigid

radical	lenition	nasalization
laigid also llaigid after a proclitic ending in a vowel	laigid 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), “laigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language