conimchloí

Old Irish

Etymology

From com- +‎ imm- +‎ cloïd.

Verb

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

1. 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

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.	con·oimchláim
	Prot.			·caemclai
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.
Future	Deut.
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.
	Prot.
Imperative								cóemchloither
Verbal noun		coímchloud
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Descendants

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

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
con·imchloí	unchanged	con·n-imchloí
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “con-imchloí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language