cléireach

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See also: clèireach, and Clèireach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cléirech (“cleric; clerk”), from Late Latin clēricus, from Ancient Greek κληρικός (klērikós).[1] By surface analysis, cléir (“clergy”) +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

Noun

cléireach m (genitive singular cléirigh, nominative plural cléirigh)

  1. clerk
  2. (historical) cleric
  3. altar server

Declension

Declension of cléireach

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cléireach cléirigh
Vocative a chléirigh a chléireacha
Genitive cléirigh cléireach
Dative cléireach cléirigh

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an cléireach na cléirigh
Genitive an chléirigh na gcléireach
Dative leis an gcléireach

don chléireach

leis na cléirigh

Quotations

  • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 196:
    Do luigh sé isteach mar chléireach siopa i dtigh mór cúraim.
    He went to work as a shop clerk in a large trading house.

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cléireach chléireach gcléireach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cléirech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 37, page 20

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