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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish clár, from Proto-Celtic *klāros, *klārom (“table”), likely cognate with Ancient Greek κλῆρος (klêros), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to lay out”), from *kelh₂- (“to hit, cut down”).
Noun
clàr m (genitive singular clàir, plural clàran or clàir)
- table, tablet
- record, recording, picture
- notice, poster, list, register,
- disk, console
- plank, board, platform, deck
- platter, panel
Derived terms
See also
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| clàr |
chlàr
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “clár”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 206-207