dolugai

Old Irish

Etymology

dí- + Proto-Celtic *logeyeti, causative of *legeti (“to lie down”) (compare Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (lagjan)), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doˈl͈uɣʲi/

Verb

do·luigi (prototonic ·dílgai, verbal noun dílgud)

1. to forgive
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 32^a21

     at féchem dom et da·lugub són

     you sg are a debtor to me and I will forgive that

Inflection

Complex, class A II 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·luigim		do·lugi, du·lugai			du·luget		du·luigter
	Prot.		·dílgai			·dílg(a)id
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.		do·rolgis, du·rolgis	do·rolaig				du·rolged	do·rolgetha, do·rolgida
	Prot.								·derlaichta
Future	Deut.	do·lugub		do·luichfea, du·lugfa
	Prot.	·dílgub						·dílgibther
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.		du·logae	do·rolgea (ro-form)		du·logaid do·rolged (ro-form)		du·loigther
	Prot.			·dílga
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.			·derliged (ro-form)				·derlaigthe
Imperative			dílich			dílg(a)id
Verbal noun		dílgud
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
do·luigi also do·lluigi	do·luigi 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·luigi”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language