Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *dligetom (duty, debt).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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dliged n (genitive dligid, nominative plural dliged or dligeda)

  1. law
    • c. 845, St Gall 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. 49–224, Sg. 26b7
      De dliguth trá inna n-il-toimdden sin, is de gaibthi “igitur”; quasi dixisset “Ní fail ní nád taí mo dligeth-sa fair i ndegaid na comroircnech.”
      Of the law then, of those many opinions, it is thereof that he recites “igitur”; as if he had said, “There is nothing which my law does not touch upon after the erroneous ones.
  2. duty (that which one is morally or legally obligated to do)
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 9d24
      arna dich cách assa dligud i n-adaltras tri láthar demuin et tri bar nebcongabthetit-si
      lest everyone go out of his duty into adultery through the Devil’s machination and through your incontinence
  3. verbal noun of dligid

Declension

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Neuter o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative dligedN, dligeth dligedN, dligeth dligedL, dligeda
Vocative dligedN, dligeth dligedN, dligeth dligedL, dligeda
Accusative dligedN, dligeth dligedN, dligeth dligedL, dligeda
Genitive dligidL dliged, dligeth dligedN, dligeth
Dative dligudL, dliguth dligedaib dligedaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

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  • Irish: dlí
  • Scottish Gaelic: dlighe

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
dliged dliged
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/
ndliged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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