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

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
ceilid	cheilid	gceilid
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Old Irish

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʲelʲiðʲ/

Verb

ceilid

1. to hide, to conceal

Inflection

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

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Abs.
	Conj.
	Rel.
Imperfect indicative
Preterite	Abs.
	Conj.
	Rel.
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.
Future	Abs.
	Conj.
	Rel.
Conditional
Present subjunctive	Abs.
	Conj.
	Rel.
Past subjunctive
Imperative
Verbal noun
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• con·ceil
• do·ceil

Descendants

• Irish: ceil

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
ceilid	cheilid	ceilid pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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