caidil

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 *tolīti, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)telH- (“be still”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰatʲɪl/

Verb

caidil (past chaidil, future caidlidh, verbal noun cadal, past participle caidilte)

1. sleep

Conjugation

Tense \ Voice	Active	Passive
Present	a' cadal	--
Past	chaidil	chaidleadh
Future	caidlidh	caidlear
Conditional	chaidleadhnote	chaidilteadh

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