laigid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *legeti, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈl͈aɣʲəðʲ/

Verb

laigid (conjunct ·laig, verbal noun lige)

1. to lie down
2. to be lying down, to sleep
3. to fall, to set in
4. to set (of the sun)

Inflection

Simple, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, unreduplicated s future, s subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Abs.			laigid
	Conj.			·laig			·legat
	Rel.			laiges
Imperfect indicative				·laiged
Preterite	Abs.
	Conj.
	Rel.
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.			·dellig			·dellgetar
Future	Abs.
	Conj.			·lee
	Rel.
Conditional
Present subjunctive	Abs.
	Conj.	·lius					·deilset (perfective)
	Rel.
Past subjunctive
Imperative
Verbal noun		lige
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• con·laig

Related terms

• do·lugai

Descendants

• Irish: luigh
• Manx: lhie
• Scottish Gaelic: laigh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
laigid also llaigid after a proclitic	laigid 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), “laigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language