dligid

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʲlʲiɣʲiðʲ/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *dligeti, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰlégʰ-e-ti.

Compare Welsh dylu (“be indebted; have a right to”), Gothic 𐌳𐌿𐌻𐌲𐍃 (dulgs, “debt”) and Old Church Slavonic длъгъ (dlŭgŭ, “debt”)).

Verb

dligid (conjunct ·dlig, verbal noun dliged)

1. to be entitled to, have a right to, be owed (as a debt)
2. to deserve, merit

Conjugation

Simple, class B I present, t and s preterite, s subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Abs.	dligim		dligid			dlegait	dlegair	dlegtair
	Conj.	·dligim	·dligi	·dlig		·dligid	·dlegat	·dlegar, ·dlegur
	Rel.			dliges			dlegtae
Imperfect indicative
Preterite	Abs.
	Conj.			·dligestar				·dlecht
	Rel.
Perfect	Deut.			ro·dligestar, ro·dlecht				ro·dlecht
	Prot.
Future	Abs.
	Conj.
	Rel.
Conditional
Present subjunctive	Abs.
	Conj.			·dlé			·dlessat
	Rel.
Past subjunctive
Imperative
Verbal noun		dliged
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• ar·dlig

Descendants

• Irish: dligh

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

dligid

1. genitive singular of dliged

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
dligid	dligid pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	ndligid
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), “dligid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language