mlegon
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- mblegon
- blegon
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *mligonos, with an unusual *-o-nos ending only paralleled by the Proto-Germanic infinitive suffix *-aną.[1] See fedan and orcun for similar, albeit feminine, formations.
Noun
mlegon m (genitive mleguin)
- verbal noun of mligid: milking
- The Annals of Ulster from the Trinity College MS 1282, published in The Annals of Ulster (to A.D. 1131) (1983, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Seán Mac Airt & Gearóid Mac Niocaill, AD 733
- Vacca visa est i n-Delggenis Cualann, se cossa lee, .i. da corp iar n-iarthur, oen-chenn sair; do·omlacht fo tri ol n-ais caich mbleguin.
- A cow was seen in Deilginis Cualann with six legs; i.e. with two bodies behind [and] a single head in front. An ól-measure of milk was taken from her thrice at each milking.
- c. 775, “Táin Bó Fraích”, in Book of Leinster; republished as Ernst Windisch, editor, Táin bó Fraích, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1974, line 367:
- Ni béo fri mblegon na mbó.
- I shall not be at the milking of the cows.
- The Annals of Ulster from the Trinity College MS 1282, published in The Annals of Ulster (to A.D. 1131) (1983, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Seán Mac Airt & Gearóid Mac Niocaill, AD 733
Inflection
| Masculine o-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | mlegon | — | — |
| Vocative | mleguin | — | — |
| Accusative | mlegonN | — | — |
| Genitive | mleguinL | — | — |
| Dative | mlegunL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived terms
Descendants
- Middle Irish: blegon
- Irish: bleán
- Scottish Gaelic: bleoghann
- Manx: blieaun
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| mlegon also mmlegon after a proclitic |
mlegon pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Gordon, Randall Clark (2012) Derivational Morphology of the Early Irish Verbal Noun, Los Angeles: University of California, page 112
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “mlegon”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “blegon”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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