dliged

Old Irish[edit]

From Proto-Celtic *dligetom (“duty, debt”).

dliged n (genitive dligid, nominative plural dliged or dligeda)

law
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 26^b7
  De dliguth trá inna n-il-toimdden sin, is de gaibthi “igitur”; quasi dixisset “Ní fail ní nád taí mo dligeth-sa fair i ndegaid na comroircnech.”
  Of the law then, of those many opinions, it is thereof that he recites “igitur”; as if he had said, “There is nothing which my law does not touch upon after the erroneous ones.
duty (that which one is morally or legally obligated to do)
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 9^d24
  arna dich cách assa dligud i n-adaltras tri láthar demuin et tri bar nebcongabthetit-si
  lest everyone go out of his duty into adultery through the Devil’s machination and through your incontinence
verbal noun of dligid

Neuter o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	dliged^N, dligeth	dliged^N, dligeth	dliged^L, dligeda
Vocative	dliged^N, dligeth	dliged^N, dligeth	dliged^L, dligeda
Accusative	dliged^N, dligeth	dliged^N, dligeth	dliged^L, dligeda
Genitive	dligid^L	dliged, dligeth	dliged^N, dligeth
Dative	dligud^L, dliguth	dligedaib	dligedaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
dliged	dliged pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	ndliged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.