legaid

See also: légaid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *legāti, from Proto-Indo-European *leg-. Cognate with English leak.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈl͈ʲeɣiðʲ/

Verb

legaid (conjunct ·lega, verbal noun legad)

  1. to melt, dissolve

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
legaid
also llegaid after a proclitic
legaid
pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/
legaid
also llegaid after a proclitic
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

  • 1 legaid” 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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