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laigh

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Irish

Verb

laigh (present analytic laigheann, future analytic laighfidh, verbal noun laigh, past participle laighte)

  1. Alternative form of luigh

Scots

Adjective

laigh (comparative laigher, superlative laighest)

  1. low

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish laigid, from Proto-Celtic *lego-, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-. Cognate with English lay, Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽 (ligan) and Old Church Slavonic лещи (lešti).[1]

Verb

laigh (past laigh, future laighidh, verbal noun laighe, past participle laighte)

  1. lie (be in recumbent position)
    laigh lesleep with
  2. lay
  3. lean, light, land
  4. perch
  5. settle, recline, press upon

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*leg-o-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 236