léigh

See also: leigh, Leigh, and lèigh

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish légaid,[1] from Latin legō.

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /lʲeːɟ/
  • (Cois Fharraige) IPA(key): (imperative) /l̠ʲeː/, (analytic past indicative) /lʲeː/
  • (Mayo, Ulster) IPA(key): (imperative) /l̠ʲeːj/, (analytic past indicative) /lʲeːj/[2]
  • Homophone: leáigh (Ulster)

Verb

léigh (present analytic léann, future analytic léifidh, verbal noun léamh, past participle léite)

  1. (transitive) to read

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “légaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 230, page 84

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