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

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
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

Mutation of conimchloí

radical	lenition	nasalization
con·imchloí (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	con·n-imchloí

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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