codladh grifín

Irish

Alternative forms
  • codladh grífín
  • codladh gribhthín, codladh gríbhthín (obsolete)[1][2]

Etymology

From codladh (“slepp”) +‎ grifín, a word found only in this compound, related somehow to driúraic, gliúragáin, Middle Irish collad gribracach, as well as griofadach (“tingling”) and obsolete driubhragán or griobhragán (“pricking pain”).[3][4]

Noun

codladh grifín m (genitive singular codlata ghrifín)

  1. pins and needles, tingling numbness

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
codladh grifín chodladh grifín gcodladh grifín
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. “codladh grifín”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “codlaḋ gríḃṫín”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 158
  3. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “gribracach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “gribracán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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