denaid

Old Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̠ʲe.nəðʲ/
  • (Blasse) [ˈd̠ʲe.nɪðʲ]
  • (Griffith) [ˈd̠ʲe.nɨðʲ]

Verb

denaid (verbal noun deol)

1. to suck

Inflection

Simple, class B IV present, reduplicated preterite

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
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

Mutation of denaid

radical	lenition	nasalization
denaid	denaid pronounced with /ðʲ-/	ndenaid

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), “denaid, dinid”, 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, page 505