légaid

See also: legaid

Old Irish

Borrowed from Latin legō.

légaid (conjunct ·léga, verbal noun légend)

to read, to study
- 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. 24^d24
  Ro·légsat canóin f⟨e⟩tarlaici ⁊ núḟíadnissi amal runda·légsam-ni, acht ronda·saíbset-som tantum.
  They have read the canon of the Old Testament and of the New Testament as we have read it, except only that they have perverted it.
to read aloud, to recite

Simple, class A I present, s preterite, a subjunctive
		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd	singular	plural
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
perfect	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

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.