conimchloí

Old Irish

Etymology

From com- + imm- + cloïd.

Verb

con·imchloí (prototonic ·caemclai, verbal noun coímchloud)

  1. to change
    • 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. 186a1
      con·(o)imchláim
      (glosses Latin cambiō (I change))
    • c. 808, Félire Oengusso, Epilogue, lines 417-420; republished as Whitley Stokes, transl., Félire Óengusso Céli Dé: The Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee, Harrison & Sons, 1905:
      Bés níp aill do dáinib   in dúbart-sa uile,
      diar n-éis arnáp barae,   cóemchloither in guide
      Perhaps all this supplication may not be pleasing to men; that anger be not after us, let the prayer be changed.

Inflection

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: clóemchloid

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
con·imchloí unchanged con·n-imchloí
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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