collaide

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish colnide. By surface analysis, colainn +‎ -ide.

Adjective

collaide

1. carnal
2. fleshy
3. sensual

Descendants

• Irish: collaí
• Scottish Gaelic: collaidh

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
collaide	chollaide	collaide 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), “colnaide”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language