deiligid

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish deiligidir, from Proto-Celtic *del-, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰayl-, *dʰoyl- (“part, watershed”). Cognate with Old English dǣlan (“to divide, part”) (Modern English deal), Lithuanian dalinti (“divide”), Old Church Slavonic дѣлити (děliti).

Verb

deiligid

  1. to separate, divide

Descendants

  • Irish: dealaigh, deighil
  • Scottish Gaelic: dealaich

Mutation

Mutation of deiligid
radical lenition nasalization
deiligid deiligid
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ 		ndeiligid

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

References

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.