Irish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From codladh (slepp) +‎ grifín, a word found only in this compound, related somehow to driúraic, gliúragáin, Middle Irish collad gribracach, as well as griofadach (tingling) and obsolete driubhragán or griobhragán (pricking pain).[3][4]

Noun edit

codladh grifín m (genitive singular codlata ghrifín)

  1. pins and needles, tingling numbness

Mutation edit

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

References edit

  1. ^ codladh grifín”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “codlaḋ gríḃṫín”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 158
  3. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “gribracach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “gribracán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language