laigid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *legeti, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈl̪a.ɣʲəðʲ/
  • (Blasse) [ˈl̪a.ɣʲɪðʲ]
  • (Griffith) [ˈl̪a.ɣʲɨðʲ]

Verb

laigid (conjunct ·laig, verbal noun lige)

1. to lie down
2. to be lying down, to sleep
3. to fall, to set in
4. to set (of the sun)

Inflection

Simple, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, unreduplicated s future, s subjunctive

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	abs.			laigid
	conj.			·laig			·legat
	rel.			laiges
imperfect indicative				·laiged
preterite	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
perfect	deut.
	prot.			·dellig			·dellgetar
future	abs.
	conj.			·lee
	rel.
conditional
present subjunctive	abs.
	conj.	·lius					·deilset (perfective)
	rel.
past subjunctive
imperative
verbal noun		lige
past participle
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• con·laig

Related terms

• do·lugai

Descendants

• Irish: luigh
• Manx: lhie
• Scottish Gaelic: laigh

Mutation

Mutation of laigid

radical	lenition	nasalization
laigid also llaigid in h-prothesis environments	laigid pronounced with /l-/	laigid also llaigid

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