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Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *dīlegāti. By surface analysis, dí- + legaid. Cognate with Welsh dileu (“to delete”).
Pronunciation
Verb
do·lega (verbal noun dílgend or dílgent)
- to destroy
- 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. 62b20
a n-imbed són ind slóig do·lega na ní téte, fo chosmailius dílenn- the abundance of the army which destroys whatever it comes to, like a deluge
Conjugation
Complex, class A I present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive
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do·lega
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du·roilged
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dus·leichfitis (with infixed pronoun s-)
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dundam·legthar (with infixed pronoun dam-)
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·derlegae (ro-form)
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dílegar
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| Verbal noun
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dílgend, dílgent
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Descendants
Mutation
Mutation of dolega
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do·lega
also do·llega
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do·lega
pronounced with /-l(ʲ)-/
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unchanged
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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), “do·lega”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 758, page 562
Polish
Pronunciation
Verb
dolega
- third-person singular present of dolegać