conlaigh

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Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Verb

conlaigh (present analytic conlaíonn, future analytic conlóidh, verbal noun conlú, past participle conlaithe)

  1. (transitive) to scrape together, scrape up (gather something needed)
  2. (intransitive) to shrink into oneself
    Chonlaigh mé chugam (féin).I shrank into myself.

Conjugation

Alternative verbal nouns: conlach, conlacht

Mutation

Mutated forms of conlaigh
radical lenition eclipsis
conlaigh chonlaigh gconlaigh

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

References

  1. ^ conlaigh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 226, page 114

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