laigid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *legeti, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈl͈aɣʲəðʲ/

Verb

laigid (conjunct ·laig, verbal noun lige)

to lie down
to be lying down, to sleep
to fall, to set in
to set (of the sun)

Inflection

Simple, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, unreduplicated s future, s subjunctive
		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd	singular	plural
present indicative	abs.			laigid
	conj.			·laig			·legat
	rel.			laiges

imperfect indicative				·laiged

preterite	abs.
	conj.
	rel.

perfect	deut.
perfect	prot.			·dellig			·dellgetar

future	abs.
	conj.			·lee
	rel.

conditional

present subjunctive	abs.
	conj.	·lius					·deilset (perfective)
	rel.

past subjunctive

imperative

verbal noun		lige
past participle
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

con·laig

Related terms

do·lugai

Descendants

Irish: luigh
Manx: lhie
Scottish Gaelic: laigh

Mutation

Mutation of *laigid*
radical	lenition	nasalization
laigid also llaigid in h-prothesis environments	laigid pronounced with /l-/	laigid also llaigid

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), “laigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language