Irish edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle Irish celg.[2]

Noun edit

cealg f (genitive singular ceilge, nominative plural cealga)

  1. treachery, guile
  2. sting (of an insect)
Declension edit
Alternative forms edit
Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

  • cealg”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “cealg”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 124

Etymology 2 edit

From Middle Irish celgaid, from the noun.[3]

Verb edit

cealg (present analytic cealgann, future analytic cealgfaidh, verbal noun cealgadh, past participle cealgtha)

  1. to sting (of an insect)
  2. to blandish, cajole
  3. to lull (a child to sleep), quiet, hush
Conjugation edit
Derived terms edit

Further reading edit

  • cealg”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “cealgaim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 124

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cealg chealg gcealg
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References edit

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 53
  2. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “celg”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “celgaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language