asgleinn

Old Irish

Etymology

From ess- + fossilized verb ·gleinn.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /asˈɡʲl͈ʲen͈ʲ/

Verb

as·gleinn (prototonic ·eclainn, verbal noun eclaimm)

to investigate, examine, study

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, s subjunctive
		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd	singular	plural
present indicative	deut.	ad·gliunn		as·gleinn, at·gleinn			in·glennat
present indicative	prot.		·eclainni

imperfect indicative	deut.	as·gleinn					at·glentis
imperfect indicative	prot.

preterite	deut.			at·gaill
preterite	prot.			·ecail

perfect	deut.
perfect	prot.

future	deut.
future	prot.

conditional	deut.
conditional	prot.

present subjunctive	deut.		in·gléis
present subjunctive	prot.

past subjunctive	deut.
past subjunctive	prot.

imperative

verbal noun		eclaimm
past participle
verbal of necessity		ecailsi

Mutation

Mutation of *as·gleinn*
radical	lenition	nasalization
as·gleinn	as·gleinn pronounced with /ɣʲ-/	as·ngleinn

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “as-gleinn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language