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Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *legāti, from Proto-Indo-European *leg-. Cognate with English leak.
Pronunciation
Verb
legaid (conjunct ·lega, verbal noun legad)
- to melt, dissolve
Conjugation
Simple, class A I present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive
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·lega, ·llega
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legas
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| Imperfect indicative
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| Preterite
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·roilged
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·leichfitis
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·legthar
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legar
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legad
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| Past participle
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| Verbal of necessity
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Derived terms
Descendants
Mutation
Mutation of legaid
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nasalization
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legaid
also llegaid after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
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legaid
pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/
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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), “1 legaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 758, page 562