dílgend
Old Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Prefixed with dí-. The ending -end, despite the base verb legaid (“to melt”) having a verbal noun legad (“melting”), arose in analogy to the very phonetically similar légaid (“to read”), whose verbal noun is légend.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdʲiːlʲ.ɣʲən͈(d)/
Noun
dílgend n (genitive dílgind)
- verbal noun of do·lega: destruction, extermination
- 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. 33c13
- .i. nírbu lour leu-som buaduguth dib, acht á n-uile dílgent ⁊ a mbrith i ndoiri, is sí écmailte in choscair insin.
- A victory over them was not enough for them, but their total destruction and their removal into slavery [would be enough]; that is the insolence of the victory.
- 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. 52a9
- óg dílgend
- complete extermination (glossing Latin internecio (“destruction, extermination”))
- 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. 33c13
Inflection
| Neuter o-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | dílgendN | — | — |
| Vocative | dílgendN | — | — |
| Accusative | dílgendN | — | — |
| Genitive | dílgindL | — | — |
| Dative | dílgiundL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
- Middle Irish: dílgend, dílgenn
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| dílgend | dílgend pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ |
ndílgend |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 737, page 455
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “dílgend, dílgen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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