conmeil

From com- +‎ meilid.

• IPA^(key):

con·meil (verbal noun commailt)

1. to rub, grind
   • c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, published in The Táin Bó Cúailnge from the Yellow Book of Lecan, with variant readings from the Lebor na hUidre (1912, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, and Co.), edited by John Strachan and James George O'Keeffe, TBC-I 1286

     Comail [Commail, LU] uilche smertha dam-sa lat. Ní hétar forsin trénfer comracc frim cen uilchi.

     Smear a beard onto me. I'm not able to fight the warrior without a beard.

   • c. 700–800 Táin Bó Cúailnge, published in Táin Bó Cúailnge. Recension I (1976, Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Cecile O'Rahilly, TBC-I 1200

     To·ficfat Ulaid assa noíndin ⁊ coto[n]·mélat ar [s]múr ⁊ grïan.

     The Ulstermen will come back from their nine-day debilitation and grind us into dust and gravel.

   • c. 750-800 Tairired na nDessi from Rawlinson B 502, published in "The Expulsion of the Dessi", Y Cymmrodor (1901, Society of Cymmrodorion), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, vol. 14, pp. 104-135, paragraph 20

     Téit iarum ina dáil ⁊ cot·meil foraib ⁊ gíallaid gail ⁊ gonair forsind ath fri Indeoin aníar.

     then went into an encounter , attacked them , , and was slain at the ford to the west of Indeoin.

   • c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 883

     To·bert iarom Corpri béoil co mór im a heim ⁊ con·amailt saill ⁊ boṡaill foa[e].

     Coirpre then put much grease on the handle and rubbed bacon and corned beef on it .

2. to consume
3. to destroy

• Irish: cuimil

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “conmeil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 577