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Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *linati, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH-.
Pronunciation
Verb
lenaid (conjunct ·len, verbal noun lenamain)
- to stick, to cling
- 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.
- to remain
- to continue, to survive
Inflection
Simple, class B IV present, reduplicated preterite, i future, a subjunctive
Derived terms
Descendants
Mutation
Old Irish mutation
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Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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lenaid also llenaid after a proclitic ending in a vowel
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lenaid pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/
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unchanged
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “lenaid”, 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 565