nige
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Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Celtic *nigyā.
Noun
[edit]nige f
- verbal noun of nigid: washing
- "A Fragment of Old Irish", in Ériu volume 2 (1905, Royal Irish Academy), pages 221-226, edited and with translations by Osborn J. Bergin
- Etag berar do aes tuattu, cot·étet deman co·róenastar; ⁊ ní anaich a chrothad nach a flescad, acht a nige.
- A garment which is taken from the laity, a demon accompanies it till it has been washed; and it serves not to shake it or beat it, but to wash it.
- "A Fragment of Old Irish", in Ériu volume 2 (1905, Royal Irish Academy), pages 221-226, edited and with translations by Osborn J. Bergin
Usage notes
[edit]DIL erroneously identifies this term as appearing from Middle Irish onwards. It is in fact also found in Old Irish.
Inflection
[edit]Feminine iā-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | nigeL | — | — |
Vocative | nigeL | — | — |
Accusative | nigiN | — | — |
Genitive | nige | — | — |
Dative | nigiL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
nige also nnige after a proclitic |
nige pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “nige”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language