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Old Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin legō.
Pronunciation
Verb
légaid (conjunct ·léga, verbal noun légend)
- to read, to study
- 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. 24d24
Ro·légsat canóin f⟨e⟩tarlaici ⁊ núḟíadnissi amal runda·légsam-ni, acht ronda·saíbset-som tantum.- They have read the canon of the Old Testament and of the New Testament as we have read it, except only that they have perverted it.
- to read aloud, to recite
Inflection
Simple, class A I present, s preterite, a subjunctive
Derived terms
Descendants
Mutation
Mutation of légaid
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lenition |
nasalization
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légaid
also llégaid after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
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légaid
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), “légaid”, 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, page 561