melg
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Old Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Celtic *melgos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ- (“milk”).[1] See also the related verb mligid.
Noun[edit]
melg n (genitive milge)
- (rare) milk
- c. 810, Florence Glosses on Philargyrus, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, p. 48, 20b
- bo-milge
- of cow-milk (glosses Latin sinum lactis .i. genus vasis)
- Synonym: lacht
- c. 810, Florence Glosses on Philargyrus, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, p. 48, 20b
Usage notes[edit]
This term was already falling out of use in the Old Irish period, being only attested in explanatory glosses.
Inflection[edit]
| Neuter s-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | melgN | — | — |
| Vocative | melgN | — | — |
| Accusative | melgN | — | — |
| Genitive | milgeL | — | — |
| Dative | milgL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation[edit]
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| melg also mmelg after a proclitic |
melg pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References[edit]
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*melgos-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 263
Further reading[edit]
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 melg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language