delg

Old Irish

delg n

Neuter s-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	delg^N	delg^N	delgae^L
Vocative	delg^N	delg^N	delgae^L
Accusative	delg^N	delg^N	delgae^L
Genitive	delgae^L	delgae	delgae^N
Dative	deilg^L	delgaib	delgaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Middle Irish: delg m (o-stem)
- Irish: dealg f (“thorn”)
- Scottish Gaelic: dealg f (“thorn”)
- Manx: jialg f (“acanthus”)

Mutation of *delg*
radical	lenition	nasalization
delg	delg pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/	ndelg

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “delg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
de Bernardo Stempel, Patrizia (1999) Nominale Wortbildung des älteren Irischen: Stammbildung und Derivation [Noun Formation in Old Irish: Stem-formation and derivation] (Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie) (in German), volume 15, Tübingen: Niemeyer, →ISBN, page 141