dolugai

Old Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

dí- (from) + Proto-Celtic *logīti (to lay, causative of *legeti (to lie)), from Proto-Indo-European *logʰ-éye-ti (to lay). Cognate with Welsh go-lo (to cover) and English to lay. See Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-.[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [doˈl͈uɣi]

Verb

do·lugai (prototonic ·dílgai, verbal noun dílgud)

  1. to forgive (taking the sin as the direct object and do + the person forgiven)

For quotations using this term, see Citations:dolugai.

Inflection

Derived terms

  • dílgadche (forgiveness)
  • dílgudach (forgiving)
  • fo·álgi (to throw down)
  • fo·luigi (to hide)
  • in·foilgi (to hide)

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: dílgaigid

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
do·lugai
also do·llugai
do·lugai
pronounced with /-l(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*legʰ-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 398
  2. Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 573

Further reading

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