caidil

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish cotlaid (compare Irish codail, Manx caddil), from Old Irish ·cotli, prototonic of con·tuili, from *kom-tulī-, from Proto-Celtic *toleyo-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tel- (“be still”).

Verb

caidil (past chaidil, future caidilidh, verbal noun cadal, past participle caidilte)

1. sleep

Conjugation

Tense \ Voice	Active	Passive
Present	a' cadal	--
Past	chaidil	chaidileadh
Future	caidilidh	caidilear
Conditional	chaidileadhnote	chaidilteadh

Note: The form for first person singular is chaidilinn, the form for first person plural is chaidileamaid.

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “caidil”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “con·tuili”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language