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 *toleyo-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tel- (“be still”).

Verb

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

  1. sleep

Conjugation
Tense \ Voice Active Passive
Present a' cadal --
Past chaidil chaidileadh
Future caidilidh caidilear
Conditional chaidileadhnote chaidilteadh

Note: The form for first person singular is chaidilinn, the form for first person plural is chaidileamaid.

References
  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “con·tuili” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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