melg

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *melgos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ- (“milk”).[1] See also the related verb mligid.

Noun

melg n (genitive milge)

  1. (rare) milk
    • c. 810, Florence Glosses on Philargyrus, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, p. 48, 20b
      bo-milge
      of cow-milk (glosses Latin sinum lactis .i. genus vasis)
    Synonym: lacht

Usage notes

This term was already falling out of use in the Old Irish period, being only attested in explanatory glosses.

Inflection

Neuter s-stem
singular dual plural
nominative melgN — —
vocative melgN — —
accusative melgN — —
genitive milgeL — —
dative milgL — —
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of melg
radical lenition nasalization
melg
also mmelg after a proclitic
ending in a vowel 		melg
pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/ 		unchanged

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

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*melgos-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 263

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