coicéile

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• coicle, coicne

Etymology

From com- +‎ céile.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.ɡʲeː.lʲe/

Noun

coicéile m (nominative plural coicéili)

1. (originally) vassal, bondsman (compare céile)
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 51^a9

     cocéle glosses cliens

2. companion, fellow, friend, comrade
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 161^b9

     Ní arddu feisin quam a chocéle.

     He himself is not taller than his companion.

Inflection

Masculine io-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	coicéile	coicéileL	coicéiliL
vocative	coicéili	coicéileL	coicéiliu
accusative	coicéileN	coicéileL	coicéiliuH
genitive	coicéiliL	coicéileL	coicéileN
dative	coicéiliuL	coicéilib	coicéilib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• coicéilsine (“comradeship, friendship”)

Descendants

• Irish: coigéile

References

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