légaid

See also: legaid

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin legō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈl̠ʲeː.ɣəðʲ/
  • (Blasse) [ˈl̠ʲeː.ɣɪðʲ]
  • (Griffith) [ˈl̠ʲeː.ɣɨðʲ]

Verb

légaid (conjunct ·léga, verbal noun légend)

1. to read
2. to study
3. to read aloud, to recite

For quotations using this term, see Citations:légaid.

Inflection

Simple, class A I present, s preterite, a subjunctive

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	abs.
	conj.			·léga				·légthar	·légatar
	rel.
imperfect indicative
preterite	abs.			légais
	conj.	·légus	·légais	·lég	·légsam	·légsid	·légsat
	rel.
perfect	deut.	ro·llégusa (with emphatic clitic -sa)	ro·légais	ro·lég	runda·légsam (with infixed pronoun da-)	ro·légsid	ro·légsat
	prot.	·roilgius				·roilgisid
future	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
conditional
present subjunctive	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
past subjunctive				·légad
imperative
verbal noun		légend
past participle
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• ar·léga

Descendants

• Irish: léigh
• Manx: lhaih
• Scottish Gaelic: leugh

Mutation

Mutation of légaid

radical	lenition	nasalization
légaid also llégaid in h-prothesis environments	légaid pronounced with /lʲ-/	légaid also llégaid

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), “légaid”, 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 561