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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Middle Irish cotlaid (compare Irish codail, Manx caddil), from Old Irish ·cotli, prototonic of con·tuili, from *kom-tulī-, from Proto-Celtic *toleyo-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tel- (“be still”).
Pronunciation
Verb
caidil (past chaidil, future caidlidh, verbal noun cadal, past participle caidilte)
- sleep
Conjugation
Note: The form for first person singular is chaidlinn, the form for first person plural is chaidleamaid.
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “caidil”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “con·tuili”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language