coicéile

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• coicle
• coicne

Etymology

From com- +‎ céile.

Noun

coicéile m (nominative plural coicéili)

1. (originally) vassal, bondsman (compare céile)
   • 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. 51^a9

     cocéle glosses cliens

2. 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. 161^b9

     ni arddu feisin quam a chocéle

Inflection

Masculine io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative
Vocative
Accusative
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Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

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