deiligid

== Middle Irish == === Etymology === From Old Irish deiligidir, from Proto-Celtic *del-, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰayl-, *dʰoyl- (“part, watershed”). Cognate with Old English dǣlan (“to divide, part”) (Modern English deal), Lithuanian dalinti (“divide”), Old Church Slavonic дѣлити (děliti). === Verb === deiligid to separate, divide ==== Descendants ==== Irish: dealaigh, deighil Scottish Gaelic: dealaich === Mutation === === References === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “deiligidir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language