Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish cotlaid (compare Scottish Gaelic caidil, Manx caddil), from Old Irish ·cotli, prototonic of con·tuili, from tuilid, from Proto-Celtic *tolīyeti, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)telH- (be still).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • (Munster, Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈkɔd̪ˠəlʲ/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈkʌd̪ˠəlʲ/
  • Forms beginning with codl- are pronounced /ˈkɔl̪ˠ-/ (Munster, Connacht), /ˈkʌl̪ˠ-/ (Ulster).

Verb

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codail (present analytic codlaíonn, future analytic codlóidh, verbal noun codladh, past participle codalta)

  1. sleep
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 157:
      ḱē n šūmrə, ə gol̄īn̄ tøsə ān̄?
      [Cén seomra a gcodlaíonn tusa ann?]
      Which room do you sleep in?
    • 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 157:
      ə xodl̥ tū gə mŭȧ.
      [Ar chodail tú go maith?]
      Did you sleep well?

Conjugation

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
codail chodail gcodail
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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

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