codail

Irish

Alternative forms

  • codlaigh

Etymology

From Middle Irish cotlaid (compare Scottish Gaelic caidil, Manx caddil), from Old Irish ·cotli, prototonic of con·tuili, from tuilid, from Proto-Celtic *tolīti, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)telH- (be still).[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Munster, Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈkod̪ˠəlʲ/[2]
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈkɔd̪ˠəlʲ/[3]
  • Forms beginning with codl- are pronounced /ˈkod̪ˠəl̪ˠ-/ or /ˈkol̪ˠ-/ (Munster); /ˈkol̪ˠ-/ (Connacht); /ˈkɔl̪ˠ-/, /ˈkol̪ˠ-/ or /ˈkʌl̪ˠ-/ (Ulster).[3]

Verb

codail (present analytic codlaíonn, future analytic codlóidh, verbal noun codladh, past participle codalta)

  1. sleep
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 157:
      ḱē n šūmrə, ə gol̄īn̄ tøsə ān̄?
      [Cén seomra a gcodlaíonn tusa ann?]
      Which room do you sleep in?
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 157:
      ə xodl̥ tū gə mŭȧ.
      [Ar chodail tú go maith?]
      Did you sleep well?

Conjugation

Mutation

Mutated forms of codail
radical lenition eclipsis
codail chodail gcodail

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “con·tuili”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 156
  3. 3.0 3.1 Wagner, Heinrich (1959) Gaeilge Theilinn: Foghraidheacht, Gramadach, Téacsanna [The Irish of Teelin: Phonetics, Grammar, Texts] (in Irish), Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath [Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies], section 366, page 131; reprinted 1979

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