dolugai

Old Irish

Etymology

dí- (“from”) +‎ Proto-Celtic *logīti (“to lay”, causative of *legeti (“to lie”)), from Proto-Indo-European *logʰ-éye-ti (“to lay”). Cognate with Welsh go-lo (“to cover”) and English to lay. See Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doˈl͈uɣi/, [doˈl͈uɣɨ]

Verb

do·lugai (prototonic ·dílgai, verbal noun dílgud)

1. to forgive (taking the sin as the direct object and do + the person forgiven)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:dolugai.

Inflection

Complex, class W2b 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	Deut.	do·luigim		du·lugi, du·lugai			du·luget		du·luigter
	Prot.		·dílgai			·dílgid, ·dílgaid
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.		do·rolgis, du·rolgis	do·rolaig				du·rolged	do·rolgetha, do·rolgida
	Prot.								·derlaichtha
Future	Deut.	do·lugub; da·lugub (with infixed pronoun a-)		do·luichfea, du·lugfa
	Prot.	·dílgub						·dílgibther
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.		du·logae	do·loga; do·rolgea (ro-form); da·rolgea (with infixed pronoun a-)		du·logaid; do·rolged (ro-form)		du·loigther
	Prot.		·derlaige (ro-form)	·dílga
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.			·derliged (ro-form)				·derlaigthe
Imperative			dílich			dílgid, dílgaid
Verbal noun		dílgud
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• dílgadche (“forgiveness”)
• dílgudach (“forgiving”)

Related terms

• fo·álgi (“to throw down”)
• fo·luigi (“to hide”)
• in·foilgi (“to hide”)

Descendants

• ⇒ Middle Irish: dílgaigid

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
do·lugai also do·llugai	do·lugai 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), “do·luigi”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language