glenaid

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *glinati, from Proto-Indo-European *gli-né-H-ti. Cognate with Welsh glynu.[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡʲlʲe.nəðʲ/,

Verb

glenaid (conjunct ·glen, verbal noun glenamon)

  1. (intransitive) to stick, cling, adhere
  2. (transitive) to stick to

For quotations using this term, see Citations:glenaid.

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Irish: glean

Mutation

Mutation of glenaid
radical lenition nasalization
glenaid glenaid
pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/
nglenaid

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

References

  1. ^ Schumacher, Stefan, Schulze-Thulin, Britta (2004) “Urkelt. *gli-na- ‘kleben’”, in Die keltischen Primärverben: ein vergleichendes, etymologisches und morphologisches Lexikon [The Celtic Primary Verbs: A comparative, etymological and morphological lexicon] (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft; 110) (in German), Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, →ISBN, page 337
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*gli-na-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 160-161

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