aingid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *anegeti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈanʲɣʲiðʲ/

Verb

aingid (conjunct ·anich, verbal noun anacol)

1. to protect, to defend, to save

Conjugation

Simple, class B I present, t preterite, unreduplicated s future, s subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Abs.			aingid			aingit
	Conj.			·anich
	Rel.			ainges
Imperfect indicative
Preterite	Abs.							anachtae	anachtai
	Conj.			·anacht			·anachtatar
	Rel.
Perfect	Deut.			ro·anacht
	Prot.
Future	Abs.			anais; ainsium (with suffixed pronoun -um)
	Conj.	·anus	·anais	·ain			·anset, ·ainset	·ainister
	Rel.
Conditional				·ainsed			·ainsitis		·anastais
Present subjunctive	Abs.
	Conj.
	Rel.
Past subjunctive
Imperative			ain	ainged				anagar	aingiter
Verbal noun		anacol
Past participle
Verbal of necessity		anachtae

• Note: the future and the present subjunctive have the same form, as do the conditional and the past subjunctive. The forms are listed here as being future/conditional, but in context they could also be present/past subjunctive.

Synonyms

• do·eim
• imm·dích

Derived terms

• ad·anaig
• ad·indnaig
• do·indnaig

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
aingid (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-aingid
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aingid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language