coicéilsine

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• cocéilsine
• cocélsine

Etymology

From coicéile +‎ -sine, from com- +‎ céile.

Noun

coicéilsine f (nominative plural coicéilsini)

1. fellowship, clientship
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 19^a2

     cocéilsine glosses societatis (“fellowship”)

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 46^d16

     innacoicceílsini glosses sodalitates (“association, group”)

   • 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^a10

     cocélsine glosses clientela (“clientship”)

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	coicéilsineL	coicéilsiniL	coicéilsini
vocative	coicéilsineL	coicéilsiniL	coicéilsini
accusative	coicéilsiniN	coicéilsiniL	coicéilsini
genitive	coicéilsine	coicéilsineL	coicéilsineN
dative	coicéilsiniL	coicéilsinib	coicéilsinib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: coigéilsine

References

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