melg
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Celtic *melgos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ- (“milk”).[1] See also the related verb mligid.
Noun edit
melg 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 edit
This term was already falling out of use in the Old Irish period, being only attested in explanatory glosses.
Inflection edit
Neuter 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 edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
melg also mmelg after a proclitic |
melg pronounced with /ṽ(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
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 melg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language