lingid

lingid

Old Irish

Etymology

Said by Matasović to come from Proto-Celtic *lengeti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁lengʷʰ- (“light; move lightly”).[1] However, the reduplicated preterite leblaing appears to come from a Proto-Celtic *ɸle-ɸlang-, suggesting a different PIE root beginning with p. Thurneysen suggests a connection with either Ancient Greek πλίσσομαι (plíssomai, “to stride out”) (from *pleygʰ-/pleyǵʰ-) or Old Church Slavonic плѧсати (plęsati, “to dance”) (from *plenḱ-); in either case lingid would have to have been influenced in form by cingid (“to step”).[2]

A more modern theory suggests that a cognate of Proto-Germanic *springaną that was conflated with *lengeti may be the source of the *ɸ that surfaces in the reduplicated forms.[3]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈl͈ʲiŋʲɡʲiðʲ]

Verb

lingid

1. to leap, to jump

Inflection

Simple, class B I present, reduplicated preterite, a future, s subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Abs.			lingid			lengait	leangair
	Conj.	·rolngaim (ro-form?)		·ling
	Rel.			lingis			lengtae
Imperfect indicative				·linged
Preterite	Abs.			leblaing
	Conj.			·leblaing
	Rel.
Perfect	Deut.			ro·leblaing
	Prot.
Future	Abs.						liblait
	Conj.
	Rel.
Conditional								lilesthae
Present subjunctive	Abs.		lis
	Conj.
	Rel.			lias
Past subjunctive				co·ribuilsed			·lestais
Imperative			ling
Verbal noun		léim; linged
Past participle
Verbal of necessity		lingthe

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
lingid also llingid after a proclitic	lingid pronounced with /l(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

1. Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*leng-o-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 237
2. Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003), D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 689b, pages 426–27
3. Gordon, Randall Clark (2012) Derivational Morphology of the Early Irish Verbal Noun, Los Angeles: University of California, §3.1.74, page 247

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “lingid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: li‧ngid
• IPA^(key): /liˈŋid/, [lɪˈŋid]

Adjective

lingíd

1. unknown; concealed; hidden; secret

   Synonyms: sekreto, lihim, kubli, tago

Derived terms

• ilingid
• malingid