coicéile
Old Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Noun
coicéile m (nominative plural coicéili)
- (originally) vassal, bondsman (compare céile)
- companion, fellow, friend, comrade
- 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. 161b9
- ni arddu feisin quam a chocéle
- 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. 161b9
Inflection
Masculine io-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | coicéile | coicéileL | coicéiliL |
Vocative | coicéili | coicéileL | coicéiliu |
Accusative | coicéileN | coicéileL | coicéiliuH |
Genitive | coicéiliL | coicéileL | coicéileN |
Dative | coicéiliuL | coicéilib | coicéilib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived terms
- coicéilsine (“comradeship, friendship”)
Descendants
- Irish: coigéile
References
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “coicéile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language