dolega

See also: Dolega and Dołęga

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *dīlegāti; synchronically analyzable as dí- + legaid. Cognate with Welsh dileu (to delete).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /doˈl͈ʲeɣa/

Verb

do·lega (verbal noun dílgend or dílgent)

  1. to destroy
    • c. 875, 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. 62b20
      a n-imbed són ind slóig do·lega na ní téte, fo chosmailius dílenn
      the abundance of the army which destroys whatever it comes to, like a deluge

Conjugation

Mutation

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

Further reading

  • do·lega” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • Holger Pedersen, Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1913, vol. II, p. 562
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