legaid

See also: légaid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *legāti, from Proto-Indo-European *leg-. Cognate with English leak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈl͈ʲeɣiðʲ/

Verb

legaid (conjunct ·lega, verbal noun legad)

1. to melt, dissolve

Conjugation

Simple, class A I present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Abs.
	Conj.			·lega, ·llega
	Rel.			legas
Imperfect indicative
Preterite	Abs.
	Conj.
	Rel.
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.							·roilged
Future	Abs.
	Conj.
	Rel.
Conditional							·leichfitis
Present subjunctive	Abs.
	Conj.							·legthar
	Rel.
Past subjunctive
Imperative								legar
Verbal noun		legad
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• do·lega
• fo·lega

 

Descendants

• Irish: leáigh
• Manx: lheie
• Scottish Gaelic: leagh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
legaid also llegaid after a proclitic ending in a vowel	legaid 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

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 legaid”, 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, § 758, page 562