tinmlegon

Old Irish

Etymology

From to- +‎ in- +‎ mlegon.

Noun

tinmlegon m

1. (hapax) promulgation
   • 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. 71^c18

     .i. arin tinmlegun .i. sechis ar ind forcitul.

     i.e. for the promulgation, i.e. that is, for the teaching.

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	tinmlegon	—	—
Vocative	tinmlegon	—	—
Accusative	tinmlegonN	—	—
Genitive	tinmlegonL	—	—
Dative	tinmlegunL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of tinmlegon

radical	lenition	nasalization
tinmlegon	thinmlegon	tinmlegon pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/

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), “tinmlegon”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language