codladh

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cotlud m (“act of sleeping, sleep”), verbal noun of con·tuili (“sleeps, falls asleep”).^[1] By surface analysis, codail (“sleep”, verb) +‎ -adh.

Pronunciation

(Munster, Galway) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔl̪ˠə/
(Mayo) IPA^(key): /ˈkɔl̪ˠuː/
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkʌl̪ˠu/^[2]

Noun

codladh m (genitive singular codlata)

verbal noun of codail (“sleep”)
sleep, slumber
Tá codladh orm. ― I am sleepy. (literally, “Sleep is on me”)

Cuireann léamh codladh uirthi. ― Reading makes her sleepy. (literally, “Reading puts sleep on her”)

Tá mo dheartháir ina chodladh. ― My brother is asleep. (literally, “My brother is in his sleep”)

Declension

Declension of codladh

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case	Singular
Nominative	codladh
Vocative	a chodladh
Genitive	codlata
Dative	codladh

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular
Nominative	an codladh
Genitive	an chodlata
Dative	leis an gcodladh don chodladh

Derived terms

codladh driúraic m (“pins and needles”)
codladh gliúragáin m (“pins and needles”)
codladh grifín m (“pins and needles”)
codlatach (“sleepy, drowsy; dormant”, adjective)
codlatacht f (“sleepiness, drowsiness”)
codlatán m (“sleeper, sleepy-head; hibernating creature”)
codlatóir m (“sleeper”)
cóiste codlata m (“sleeping-car”)
deora codlata m (“sleeping-draught”)
díth codlata f (“sleeplessness”)
laom codlata m (“snatch of sleep”)
log codlata m (“sleeping-place”)
mála codlata m (“sleeping-bag”)
néal codlata m (“wink of sleep”)
neamhchodladh m (“insomnia”)
sámhán codlata m (“nap, doze”)
seomra codlata m (“bedroom”)
slán codlata! (“good-night!”)
snap codlata m (“short sleep”)
tionnúr codlata m (“wink of sleep; nap, snooze”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
codladh	chodladh	gcodladh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cotlud”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 79

Further reading

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “codladh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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