coímchloud

Old Irish

Etymology

Formed with the suffix -ad.

Noun

coímchloud m (genitive coímchloda)

1. verbal noun of con·imchloí: change
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 109^d4

     .i. cen choimchlod fuiri

     without change upon it (glossing Latin fixam (“fixed”))

   • 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. 62^a4

     .i. in coimmchlóud són .i. cach-la céin it masculina in cein n-aili it feminina.

     i.e. the change [of gender]: that is, at one time they are masculine, at another time they are feminine.

2. exchange

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	coímchloud	—	—
Vocative	coímchloud	—	—
Accusative	coímchloudN	—	—
Genitive	coímchlodoH, coímchlodaH	—	—
Dative	coímchloudL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: caemchlód, claemchlód, cloechlód
  • Scottish Gaelic: caochladh
  • Manx: caghlaa

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
coímchloud	choímchloud	coímchloud pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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