légaid

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See also: legaid

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin legō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈl͈ʲeːɣɨðʲ]

Verb

légaid (conjunct ·léga, verbal noun légend)

  1. 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.
  2. to read aloud, to recite

Inflection

More information 1st sg, 2nd sg ...
Simple, class A I present, s preterite, a subjunctive
1st sg 2nd sg 3rd sg 1st pl 2nd pl 3rd pl passive sg passive pl
present indicative abs.
conj. ·léga ·légthar ·légatar
rel.
imperfect indicative
preterite abs. légais
conj. ·légus ·légais ·lég ·légsam ·légsid ·légsat
rel.
perfect deut. ro·llégusa (with emphatic clitic -sa) ro·légais ro·lég runda·légsam (with infixed pronoun da-) ro·légsid ro·légsat
prot. ·roilgius ·roilgisid
future abs.
conj.
rel.
conditional
present subjunctive abs.
conj.
rel.
past subjunctive ·légad
imperative
verbal noun légend
past participle
verbal of necessity
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Derived terms

  • ar·léga

Descendants

  • Irish: léigh
  • Manx: lhaih
  • Scottish Gaelic: leugh

Mutation

More information radical, lenition ...
Mutation of légaid
radicallenitionnasalization
légaid
also llégaid after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
légaid
pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/
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.

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