selige

German

Pronunciation

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Adjective

selige

1. inflection of selig:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Latin

Verb

sēlige

1. second-person singular present active imperative of sēligō

Old Irish

Etymology

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Noun

selige m

1. Any animal with a shell:
   1. (hapax) turtle, tortoise
      • c. 825–850 Karlsruhe Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 225–230, PCr. 24^a1

        selige ― glosses Latin testudo

Inflection

Masculine io-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	selige	seligeL	seligiL
vocative	seligi	seligeL	seligiu
accusative	seligeN	seligeL	seligiuH
genitive	seligiL	seligeL	seligeN
dative	seligiuL	seligib	seligib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: seilche
  • Scottish Gaelic: seilche (“turtle”)
  • ⇒ Irish: seilide (“snail”)

Mutation

Mutation of selige

radical	lenition	nasalization
selige	ṡelige	unchanged

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