mlegon

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Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *mligonos, with an unusual *-o-nos ending only paralleled by the Proto-Germanic infinitive suffix *-aną.[1] See fedan and orcun for similar, albeit feminine, formations.

Noun

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mlegon m (genitive mleguin)

  1. verbal noun of mligid: milking
    • The Annals of Ulster from the Trinity College MS 1282, published in The Annals of Ulster (to A.D. 1131) (1983, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Seán Mac Airt & Gearóid Mac Niocaill, AD 733
      Vacca visa est i n-Delggenis Cualann, se cossa lee, .i. da corp iar n-iarthur, oen-chenn sair; do·omlacht fo tri ol n-ais caich mbleguin.
      A cow was seen in Deilginis Cualann with six legs; i.e. with two bodies behind [and] a single head in front. An ól-measure of milk was taken from her thrice at each milking.
    • c. 775, “Táin Bó Fraích”, in Book of Leinster; republished as Ernst Windisch, editor, Táin bó Fraích, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1974, line 367:
      Ni béo fri mblegon na mbó.
      I shall not be at the milking of the cows.

Inflection

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Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative mlegon
Vocative mleguin
Accusative mlegonN
Genitive mleguinL
Dative mlegunL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: blegon

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
mlegon
also mmlegon after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
mlegon
pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gordon, Randall Clark (2012) Derivational Morphology of the Early Irish Verbal Noun, Los Angeles: University of California, page 112

Further reading

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