legaid

See also: légaid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *legāti, from Proto-Indo-European *leg-. Cognate with English leak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈl͈ʲeɣiðʲ/

Verb

legaid (conjunct ·lega, verbal noun legad)

1. to melt, dissolve

Conjugation

Simple, class A I present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	abs.
	conj.			·lega, ·llega
	rel.			legas
imperfect indicative
preterite	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
perfect	deut.
	prot.							·roilged
future	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
conditional							·leichfitis
present subjunctive	abs.
	conj.							·legthar
	rel.
past subjunctive
imperative								legar
verbal noun		legad
past participle
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• do·lega
• fo·lega

Descendants

• Irish: leáigh
• Manx: lheie
• Scottish Gaelic: leagh

Mutation

Mutation of legaid

radical	lenition	nasalization
legaid also llegaid after a proclitic ending in a vowel	legaid 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), “1 legaid”, 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, § 758, page 562