dolugai

Old Irish

Etymology

dí- + Proto-Celtic *logeyeti, causative of *legeti (to lie down) (compare Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (lagjan)), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-.[1]

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

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. 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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