dliged

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *dligetom (duty, debt).

Pronunciation

Noun

dliged n (genitive dligid, nominative plural dliged or dligeda)

  1. law
    • 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. 26b7
      De dliguth trá inna n-il-toimdden sin, is de gaibthi “igitur”; quasi dixisset “Ní fail ní nád taí mo dligeth-sa fair i ndegaid na comroircnech.”
      Of the law then, of those many opinions, it is thereof that he recites “igitur”; as if he had said, “There is nothing which my law does not touch upon after the erroneous ones.
  2. duty (that which one is morally or legally obligated to do)
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 9d24
      arna dich cách assa dligud i n-adaltras tri láthar demuin et tri bar nebcongabthetit-si
      lest everyone go out of his duty into adultery through the Devil’s machination and through your incontinence
  3. verbal noun of dligid

Declension

Neuter o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative dligedN, dligeth dligedN, dligeth dligedL, dligeda
Vocative dligedN, dligeth dligedN, dligeth dligedL, dligeda
Accusative dligedN, dligeth dligedN, dligeth dligedL, dligeda
Genitive dligidL dliged, dligeth dligedN, dligeth
Dative dligudL, dliguth dligedaib dligedaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Irish: dlí
  • Scottish Gaelic: dlighe

Mutation

Mutation of dliged
radical lenition nasalization
dliged dliged
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/
ndliged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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