contuili

Old Irish

Etymology

com- +‎ tuilid, from Proto-Celtic *tolīyeti, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)telH- (“be still”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kon͈ˈtulʲi/

Verb

con·tuili (verbal noun cotlud)

1. to sleep
2. to fall asleep

Conjugation

Complex, class W2b 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	deut.	con·tuilim		con·tuili	con·tulmis
	prot.	·cotlu, ·catlaim		·cotli
imperfect indicative	deut.			con·tuiled
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.
perfect	deut.
	prot.
future	deut.	con·tuilliub
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative			cotail
verbal noun		cotlud
past participle
verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Middle Irish: cotlaid
  • Irish: codail
  • Manx: cadley
  • Scottish Gaelic: cadail, caidil

Mutation

Mutation of contuili

radical	lenition	nasalization
con·tuili	unchanged	unchanged

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

References

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