lenaid

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *linati, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH-.

Pronunciation

Verb

lenaid (conjunct ·len, verbal noun lenamain)

  1. to stick, to cling
  2. to follow (+ di)
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10a5
      Mainip in chrud so bid anglan for cland, .i. a lliles dind ancretmiuch bid ancretmech.
      Unless it is in this way, your children will be unclean, i.e. whatever follows the unbelieving will be unbelieving.
  3. to remain
  4. to continue, to survive

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Irish: lean
  • Scottish Gaelic: lean

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
lenaid
also llenaid after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
lenaid
pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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