melg
Old Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Celtic *melgos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ- (“milk”).[1] See also the related verb mligid.
Noun
editmelg n (genitive milge)
- (rare) milk
- c. 810, Florence Glosses on Philargyrus, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, p. 48, 20b
- bo-milge
- of cow-milk (glosses Latin sinum lactis .i. genus vasis)
- Synonym: lacht
- c. 810, Florence Glosses on Philargyrus, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, p. 48, 20b
Usage notes
editThis term was already falling out of use in the Old Irish period, being only attested in explanatory glosses.
Inflection
editNeuter s-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | melgN | — | — |
Vocative | melgN | — | — |
Accusative | melgN | — | — |
Genitive | milgeL | — | — |
Dative | milgL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
melg also mmelg after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
melg pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*melgos-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 263
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 melg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language