doceil

Old Irish

Etymology

From dí- +‎ ceilid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /doˈkʲelʲ/

Verb

do·ceil (prototonic ·dichil, verbal noun díchleth or díchelt)

1. to hide, to conceal
   • 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. 56^c11

     .i. amal is i mmedon lathi is relem cech rét is do ducad són du thaidbsin nad·ndichil ní ar Dia i ngnimaib cech óin.

     As it is noon [lit. midday] that everything is most clearly visible, it is for this [reason] that it was brought forward, to show that nothing hides from God in the deeds of everyone.

   • Trecheng Breth Féne, published in The Triads of Ireland (1906, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, §84

     Trí cáin do·celat éitchi: sobés la anricht, áne la dóer, ecna la dodelb.

     Three fair things that hide ugliness: good manners for the ill-favored, skill in a serf, [and] wisdom in the misshapen.

Inflection

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.			do·ceil			do·celat
	prot.			·dichil					·dichliter
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.			to·celt			do·celtatar
	prot.
perfect	deut.
	prot.
future	deut.
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative
verbal noun		díchleth, díchelt
past participle
verbal of necessity		dichelta

References

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