lenaid
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Celtic *linati, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH-.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
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.
- 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
- to remain
- to continue, to survive
Inflection edit
Simple, class B IV present, reduplicated preterite, i future, a subjunctive
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present indicative | Abs. | lenid, lenaid | lenit | ||||||
| Conj. | ·len | ·lentar | |||||||
| Rel. | |||||||||
| Imperfect indicative | |||||||||
| Preterite | Abs. | lilis | |||||||
| Conj. | ·lil | ·leltar, ·leldar | |||||||
| Rel. | |||||||||
| Perfect | Deut. | ro·lil | ro·leltar | ||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Future | Abs. | lile | lilit | ||||||
| Conj. | |||||||||
| Rel. | liles | ||||||||
| Conditional | |||||||||
| Present subjunctive | Abs. | lia[e] | |||||||
| Conj. | ·lia | ||||||||
| Rel. | |||||||||
| Past subjunctive | ·liad | ||||||||
| Imperative | |||||||||
| Verbal noun | lenamain | ||||||||
| Past participle | |||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Mutation edit
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| lenaid also llenaid after a proclitic |
lenaid pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, 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