dolugai

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

dí- (from) +‎ Proto-Celtic *logīti (to lay, causative of *legeti (to lie)), from Proto-Indo-European *logʰ-éye-ti (to lay). Cognate with Welsh go-lo (to cover) and English to lay. See Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-.

Pronunciation

Verb

do·lugai (prototonic ·dílgai, verbal noun dílgud)

  1. to forgive (taking the sin as the direct object and do + the person forgiven)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:dolugai.

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Descendants

  • Middle Irish: dílgaigid

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
do·lugai
also do·llugai
do·lugai
pronounced with /-l(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*legʰ-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 398
  2. ^ Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 573

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