ailid – Old Irish verb conjugation

Old Irish verb forms of ailid

ailid

Present

1st sing.ailim
2nd sing.aili
3rd sing.ailid; ailes; aileas; ailedar
1st plur.ailmi
2nd plur.ailide
3rd plur.ailit; ailte
For the machine-generated forms (marked with mono-space font), C.f. airid, benaid, coínid, sroiglid.

Nominal Forms

Verbal Nounaltram
Past Participleailte; altae
Verbal of Necessityailti
For the machine-generated forms (marked with mono-space font), C.f. brisid.

Verbs conjugated like ailid

ailid,

Sample Sentences

  • is inse ṅduit; ní tú nod·n-ail, acht is hé not·ail. (it is impossible for you sg; it is not you that nourishes it, but it that nourishes you)

Etymology

1. From Proto-Celtic *aleti, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂életi. Cognate with Middle Welsh alu (“bear young”), Latin alō (“I feed, nourish”), Old English alan (“to nourish”).
2. The future stem has eb- extracted from reduplicated futures like ebarthi (“will grant it”) (from Proto-Celtic *ɸiɸrāti) and ·ebla¹ (“will drive”) (from Proto-Celtic *ɸiɸlāti) and reinterpreted as a future marker. See: Proto-Indo-European '*h₂életi', Latin 'alō', Old English 'alan'.

Verbs referencing "ailid"

Irish oil.