dílgend

Old Irish

Alternative forms

dílgent

Etymology

Prefixed with dí-. The ending -end, despite the base verb legaid (“to melt”) having a verbal noun legad (“melting”), arose in analogy to the very phonetically similar légaid (“to read”), whose verbal noun is légend.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈdʲiːlʲ.ɣʲən͈(d)/

Noun

dílgend n (genitive dílgind)

verbal noun of do·lega: destruction, extermination
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 33^c13
  .i. nírbu lour leu-som buaduguth dib, acht á n-uile dílgent ⁊ a mbrith i ndoiri, is sí écmailte in choscair insin.
  A victory over them was not enough for them, but their total destruction and their removal into slavery [would be enough]; that is the insolence of the victory.
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 52^a9
  óg dílgend
  complete extermination (glossing Latin internecio (“destruction, extermination”))

Inflection

Neuter o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	dílgend^N	—	—
Vocative	dílgend^N	—	—
Accusative	dílgend^N	—	—
Genitive	dílgind^L	—	—
Dative	dílgiund^L	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Middle Irish: dílgend, dílgenn

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
dílgend	dílgend pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	ndílgend
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003), D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 737, page 455