denaid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *dinati, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdʲenɨðʲ]

Verb

denaid (verbal noun deol)

1. to suck

Inflection

Simple, class B IV present, reduplicated preterite

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Abs.						denait
	Conj.
	Rel.
Imperfect indicative							dendais
Preterite	Abs.			dith
	Conj.
	Rel.			dide
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.
Future	Abs.
	Conj.
	Rel.
Conditional
Present subjunctive	Abs.
	Conj.
	Rel.
Past subjunctive
Imperative
Verbal noun		deol
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Middle Irish: denaid
• ⇒ Irish: diúl (denominative from the verbal noun)

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
denaid	denaid pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	ndenaid
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), “denaid, dinid”, 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, page 505