glenaid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *glinati, from Proto-Indo-European *gli-né-H-ti. Cognate with Welsh glynu.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

glenaid (conjunct ·glen, verbal noun glenamon)

1. (intransitive) to stick, cling, adhere
2. (transitive) to stick to

For quotations using this term, see Citations:glenaid.

Inflection

Simple, class B IV present, reduplicated preterite, i future, a subjunctive

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	abs.			glenaid			glenait
	conj.			·glen
	rel.
imperfect indicative
preterite	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
perfect	deut.			ro·gíuil
	prot.
future	abs.						gíulait
	conj.
	rel.			gíulae
conditional
present subjunctive	abs.
	conj.	·gléu
	rel.						glete
past subjunctive
imperative
verbal noun		glenamon
past participle
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• do·glen
• fo·glen

Descendants

• Irish: glean

Mutation

Mutation of glenaid

radical	lenition	nasalization
glenaid	glenaid pronounced with /ɣʲ-/	nglenaid

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), “glenaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language