conceil

Old Irish

FWOTD – 6 September 2024

Etymology

From com- +‎ ceilid. Calque of Latin concēlō (“to conceal”), whence also English conceal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [koŋʲˈkʲelʲ]

Verb

con·ceil

1. to hide, to conceal

Inflection

Perfective forms use the augment ad-.

Complex, class B I present, t preterite, é future, a subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.			con·ceil; conith·cheil (with infixed pronoun -id)				con·celar
	Prot.
Imperfect indicative	Deut.
	Prot.
Preterite	Deut.
	Prot.
Perfect	Deut.			con·aicelt
	Prot.
Future	Deut.			cota·céla (with infixed pronoun -ta)
	Prot.
Conditional	Deut.
	Prot.
Present subjunctive	Deut.		con·celae	cot·chela (with infixed pronoun t-)
	Prot.
Past subjunctive	Deut.			ɔ·chelad
	Prot.
Imperative
Verbal noun
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Quotations

• 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. 49^c9

  Con·aicelt ⁊ do·rolaig in peccad ⁊ ní n‑árraim ar chairi dó.

  He has concealed and forgiven the sin and he has not considered it a reproach to him.

Mutation

Mutation of conceil

radical	lenition	nasalization
con·ceil	con·cheil	con·ceil pronounced with /-ɡ(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “conceil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, § 678.2, page 482