mligid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *mligeti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-.

Verb

mligid (verbal noun mlegon)

1. to milk

Conjugation

Simple, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, s subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Abs.
	Conj.
	Rel.							mblegar
Imperfect indicative							·mbligtis
Preterite	Abs.
	Conj.
	Rel.
Perfect	Deut.	do·ommalg						do·omlacht
	Prot.							·tomlacht
Future	Abs.
	Conj.
	Rel.
Conditional
Present subjunctive	Abs.							meltar
	Conj.
	Rel.
Past subjunctive
Imperative
Verbal noun		mlegon
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Related terms

• melg
• mlicht
• do·inmlig

Descendants

• Irish: bligh
• ⇒ Scottish Gaelic: bleoghainn

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
mligid also mmligid after a proclitic ending in a vowel	mligid pronounced with /β̃(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), “mligid”, 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, § 781, page 580