adilgnigidir
Old Irish
editEtymology
editFrom aidlicen (“needy, poor”) + -igidir.
Pronunciation
editSome forms show metathesis of /ilʲ/ to /lʲi/ in the second syllable.
Verb
editadilgnigidir (conjunct ·adilgnigedar or ·aidlicnigedar)
- to need, want (with úa + the thing needed/wanted)
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 4b10
- Aidligni⟨gi⟩tir dano úadisi.
- therefore they need it
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 4b10
Conjugation
editSimple, class A II present, deponent
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
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| Present indicative | Abs. | aidligni⟨gi⟩tir | |||||||
| Conj. | ·aidlicnigedar, ·adilgnigedar | ·adilgnigmar | ·aidlicnigetar | ||||||
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| Present subjunctive | Abs. | ||||||||
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Mutation
edit| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| adilgnigidir (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-adilgnigidir |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aidilccnigidir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language