caoidh

lamentation, Irish caoi, caoidh, Early Irish cói, cái, inf. to cíim, ploro, *keiô, root qei, which appears in caoin, q.v., and in English whine, whisper, etc. Bezzenberger suggests *keipô, and compares Lithuanian szëptis, grimace, Church Slavonic o-sipna$$?ti, raucescere. A former derivation of Stokes' is repeated by Rhys (Manx.Pray. $$+2, 26): *qesi, root qes as in Latin questus.