cloid

Old Irish

Verb

cloïd (conjunct ·cloí, verbal noun cloüd)

1. to overthrow, overcome
2. to vanquish, destroy
   • c. 850-875, Turin Glosses and Scholia on St Mark, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 484–94, Tur. 18

     I ndithrub Pardais, ro·cloï-som Adam; i ndithrub in domuin, ra·cloï-som Críst.

     In the wilderness of Paradise, [the Devil] has vanquished Adam; in the wilderness of the world, Christ has vanquished him.

Inflection

Simple, class A III present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	abs.							cloíthir
	conj.
	rel.
imperfect indicative
preterite	abs.			cluidsius (with suffixed pronoun -us)
	conj.
	rel.
perfect	deut.		ro·clois	ro·cloí				ro·cload
	prot.			·roclóe
future	abs.
	conj.							cloifether
	rel.
conditional
present subjunctive	abs.
	conj.
	rel.
past subjunctive							·cloitis
imperative
verbal noun		cloüd
past participle
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• imm·cloí
• con·erchloí
• con·imchloí

Descendants

• Middle Irish: cloíd
  • Irish: clóigh
  • Scottish Gaelic: clòth

Further reading

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