aingid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *anegeti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈanʲ.ɣʲəðʲ/
  • (Blasse) [ˈanʲ.ɣʲɪðʲ]
  • (Griffith) [ˈanʲ.ɣʲɨðʲ]

Verb

aingid (conjunct ·anich, verbal noun anacol)

1. to protect, to defend, to save

For quotations using this term, see Citations:aingid.

Conjugation

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

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	abs.			aingid			aingit
	conj.			·anich
	rel.			ainges
imperfect indicative
preterite	abs.							anachtae	anachtai
	conj.			·anacht			·anachtatar
	rel.
perfect	deut.			ro·anacht
	prot.
future	abs.			anais; ainsium (with suffixed pronoun -um)
	conj.	·anus	·anais	·ain			·anset, ·ainset	·ainister
	rel.
conditional				·ainsed			·ainsitis		·anastais
present subjunctive	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
past subjunctive
imperative			ain	ainged				anagar	aingiter
verbal noun		anacol
past participle
verbal of necessity		anachtae

• Note: the future and the present subjunctive have the same form, as do the conditional and the past subjunctive. The forms are listed here as being future/conditional, but in context they could also be present/past subjunctive.

Synonyms

• do·eim
• imm·dích

Derived terms

• ad·anaig
• ad·indnaig
• do·indnaig

Mutation

Mutation of aingid

radical	lenition	nasalization
aingid (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	aingid	n-aingid

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aingid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Pedersen, Holger (1913), Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 656, page 456