clí

See also: cli, CLI, and clì

Irish

clí f (genitive singular clí)

Declension of clí (fourth declension, no plural)

forms with the definite article
case	singular
nominative	an chlí
genitive	na clí
dative	leis an gclí don chlí

Mutated forms of *clí*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
clí	chlí	gclí

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

From Proto-Celtic *klits (“(wooden) post”).^[1]

clí f

housepost
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 33^a5
  Is clí darach Moysi is in tegdais, s hé-som immurgu ↄ·rotaig in tegdais.
  Moses is an oaken pillar in the house: it is He, however, that has built the house.
authority, champion

Feminine indeclinable
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	clí	clí	clí
Vocative	clí	clí	clí
Accusative	clí	clí	clí
Genitive	clí	clí	clí
Dative	clí	clí	clí
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Feminine t-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	clí	clith^L, clí	clith
Vocative	clí	clith^L, clí	cletha
Accusative	clith^N	clith^L, clí	cletha
Genitive	cleth	cleth	cleth^N
Dative	clith^L	clethaib	clethaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation of *clí*
radical	lenition	nasalization
clí	chlí	clí pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*klit-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 208