conimchloí

Old Irish

Etymology

From com- +‎ imm- +‎ cloïd.

Verb

con·imchloí (prototonic ·caemclai, verbal noun coímchloud)

to change
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 186^a1
  con·(o)imchláim
  (glosses Latin cambiō (“I change”))
- c. 808, Félire Oengusso, Epilogue, lines 417-420; republished as Whitley Stokes, transl., Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Harrison & Sons, 1905:
  Bés níp aill do dáinib in dúbart-sa uile,
  diar n-éis arnáp barae, cóemchloither in guide
  Perhaps all this supplication may not be pleasing to men; that anger be not after us, let the prayer be changed.

Inflection

Complex, class A III present
		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd	singular	plural
present indicative	deut.	con·oimchláim
present indicative	prot.			·caemclai

imperfect indicative	deut.
imperfect indicative	prot.

preterite	deut.
preterite	prot.

perfect	deut.
perfect	prot.

future	deut.
future	prot.

conditional	deut.
conditional	prot.

present subjunctive	deut.
present subjunctive	prot.

past subjunctive	deut.
past subjunctive	prot.

imperative								cóemchloither

verbal noun		coímchloud
past participle
verbal of necessity

Descendants

Middle Irish: clóemchloid
- Irish: claochlaigh
- Scottish Gaelic: caochail
- Manx: ceaghil, caghlaa

Mutation

Mutation of *con·imchloí*
radical	lenition	nasalization
con·imchloí (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	con·imchloí	con·n-imchloí

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

Further reading

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “con-imchloí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language