dílgud

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdʲiːlɣuð]

Noun

dílgud m (genitive dílguda or dílgutha or dílgotho)

1. verbal noun of do·lugai (“to forgive”)
2. forgiveness

Declension

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	dílgud	—	—
Vocative	dílgud	—	—
Accusative	dílgudN	—	—
Genitive	dílgudoH, dílgudaH	—	—
Dative	dílgudL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Other attested genitive singular forms: dílgotho, dílgutha

Quotations

• 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. 51^a18

  In tan imme·romastar són nach noíb, ara cuintea dílgud Dé isind aimsir sin.

  That is, when any saint sins, that he may seek the forgiveness of God at that time.

• 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. 59^c3

  Is ed con·aitecht tantum dílgud a pecthae ṅdó hó Día, ⁊ ní comtacht cumachtae ṅdíglae fora náimtea.

  That is, he asked only for forgiveness of his sins to him by God, and he did not ask for power of vengeance on his enemies.

• 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. 124^b3

  Ní du ṡémigud pectha at·ber-som inso .i. combad dó fa·cherred: “ní sní cetid·deirgni ⁊ ní sní dud·rigni nammá”; acht is do chuingid dílguda dosom, amal du·rolged dïa aithrib íar n-immarmus.

  It is not to palliate sin that he says this, i.e. so that he might put it for this: “we have not done it first and we have not done it only”; but it is to seek forgiveness for himself, as his fathers had been forgiven after sinning.

Descendants

• Irish: díolghadh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
dílgud	dílgud pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	ndílgud
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), “dílgud”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language