dolega

See also: Dolega and Dołęga

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *dīlegāti; synchronically analyzable as dí- +‎ legaid. Cognate with Welsh dileu (“to delete”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doˈl͈ʲeɣa/

Verb

do·lega (verbal noun dílgend or dílgent)

1. to destroy
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 62^b20

     a n-imbed són ind slóig do·lega na ní téte, fo chosmailius dílenn

     the abundance of the army which destroys whatever it comes to, like a deluge

Conjugation

Complex, class A I present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.			do·lega
	Prot.
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.							du·roilged
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.						dus·leichfitis (with infixed pronoun s-)
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.							dundam·legthar (with infixed pronoun dam-)
	Prot.		·derlegae (ro-form)
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperative								dílegar
Verbal noun		dílgend, dílgent
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
do·lega also do·llega	do·lega 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), “do·lega”, 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 562