coicéile
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Old Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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
- Ní arddu feisin quam a chocéle.
- He himself is not taller than his companion.
- 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
[edit]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
[edit]- coicéilsine (“comradeship, friendship”)
Descendants
[edit]- Irish: coigéile
References
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “coicéile”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language