ceilid

Irish

Verb

ceilid

1. (archaic, Munster) third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of ceil

Usage notes

The standard modern language uses the analytic constructions ceileann siad in the indicative and (go g)ceile siad in the subjunctive.

Mutation

Mutated forms of ceilid

radical	lenition	eclipsis
ceilid	cheilid	gceilid

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

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *keleti, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱéleti.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʲe.lʲəðʲ/
  • (Blasse) [ˈkʲe.lʲɪðʲ]
  • (Griffith) [ˈkʲe.lʲɨðʲ]

Verb

ceilid (conjunct ·ceil, verbal noun cleth)

1. to hide, to conceal

Inflection

Simple, class B I present, t preterite, é future, a subjunctive

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	abs.
	conj.			·ceil	·celam		·celat	·celar
	rel.
imperfect indicative							·ceiltis
preterite	abs.
	conj.			·celt
	rel.
perfect	deut.							ro·cleth
	prot.
future	abs.
	conj.	·cél		·céla	·célam			·céltar
	rel.
conditional
present subjunctive	abs.
	conj.		·celae	·cela
	rel.
past subjunctive
imperative
verbal noun		cleth
past participle		clithe
verbal of necessity		clithi, clethi

Derived terms

• ar·cela
• con·ceil
• do·ceil

Related terms

• cel
  • Irish: ceal
  • Scottish Gaelic: ceal

Descendants

• Irish: ceil
• Scottish Gaelic: ceil
• Manx: keil
• ⇒ Scottish Gaelic: culaidh

Mutation

Mutation of ceilid

radical	lenition	nasalization
ceilid	cheilid	ceilid pronounced with /ɡʲ-/

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), “ceilid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language