Irish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Irish cotlud m (act of sleeping, sleep), verbal noun of con·tuili (sleeps, falls asleep).[1] By surface analysis, codail (sleep, verb) +‎ -adh.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

codladh m (genitive singular codlata)

  1. verbal noun of codail (sleep)
  2. sleep, slumber
    codladh orm.I am sleepy. (literally, “Sleep is on me”)
    Cuireann léamh codladh uirthi.Reading makes her sleepy. (literally, “Reading puts sleep on her”)
    Tá mo dheartháir ina chodladh.My brother is asleep. (literally, “My brother is in his sleep”)

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
codladh chodladh gcodladh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  1. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cotlud”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 79

Further reading edit