legaid

See also: légaid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *legāti, from Proto-Indo-European *leg-. Cognate with English leak.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈl͈ʲeɣiðʲ/

Verb

legaid (conjunct ·lega, verbal noun legad)

to melt, dissolve

Conjugation

Simple, class A I present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive
		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd	singular	plural
present indicative	abs.
	conj.			·lega, ·llega
	rel.			legas

imperfect indicative

preterite	abs.
	conj.
	rel.

perfect	deut.
perfect	prot.							·roilged

future	abs.
	conj.
	rel.

conditional							·leichfitis

present subjunctive	abs.
	conj.							·legthar
	rel.

past subjunctive

imperative								legar

verbal noun		legad
past participle
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

Descendants

Irish: leáigh
Manx: lheie
Scottish Gaelic: leagh

Mutation

Mutation of *legaid*
radical	lenition	nasalization
legaid also llegaid in h-prothesis environments	legaid pronounced with /lʲ-/	legaid also llegaid

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), “1 legaid”, 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, § 758, page 562