selige

German

Pronunciation
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Adjective

selige

  1. inflection of selig:
    1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
    2. strong nominative/accusative plural
    3. weak nominative all-gender singular
    4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Latin

Verb

sēlige

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of sēligō

Old Irish

Etymology

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Noun

selige m

  1. Any animal with a shell:
    1. (hapax) turtle, tortoise
      • c. 825–850 Karlsruhe 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. 225–230, PCr. 24a1
        selige ― glosses Latin testudo

Inflection
Masculine io-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative selige seligeL seligiL
Vocative seligi seligeL seligiu
Accusative seligeN seligeL seligiuH
Genitive seligiL seligeL seligeN
Dative seligiuL seligib seligib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants
  • Middle Irish: seilche
    • Scottish Gaelic: seilche (“turtle”)
    • ⇒ Irish: seilide (“snail”)

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
selige ṡelige unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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