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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish cléirech (“cleric; clerk”), from Late Latin clēricus, from Ancient Greek κληρικός (klērikós).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
cléireach m (genitive singular cléirigh, nominative plural cléirigh)
- clerk
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.
- (historical) cleric
- altar boy
- sexton
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| cléireach
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chléireach
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gcléireach
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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
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cléirech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 20
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