dílgend

• dílgent

Prefixed with dí-. The ending -end, despite the base verb legaid (“to melt”) having a verbal noun legad (“melting”), arose in analogy to the very phonetically similar légaid (“to read”), whose verbal noun is légend.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʲiːlʲ.ɣʲən͈(d)/

dílgend n (genitive dílgind)

1. verbal noun of do·lega: destruction, extermination
   • 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. 33^c13

     .i. nírbu lour leu-som buaduguth dib, acht á n-uile dílgent ⁊ a mbrith i ndoiri, is sí écmailte in choscair insin.

     A victory over them was not enough for them, but their total destruction and their removal into slavery ; that is the insolence of the victory.

   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 52^a9

     óg dílgend

     complete extermination (glossing Latin internecio (“destruction, extermination”))

• Middle Irish: dílgend, dílgenn

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “dílgend, dílgen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language