claidid

From Proto-Celtic *kladeti. Cognate with Welsh claddu (“bury”) and Breton klazañ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈklaðʲiðʲ/

claidid (conjunct ·claid, verbal noun claide)

1. to dig
   • c. 750-800 Tairired na nDessi from Rawlinson B 502, published in "The Expulsion of the Dessi", Y Cymmrodor (1901, Society of Cymmrodorion), edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer, vol. 14, pp. 104-135, paragraph 3

     Is desin ro·gníd Ocheill for Temraig sechtair .i. clasa ráth la Cormac, conid inte no·foihed-som do grés, ar ni ba hada rí co n-anim do feis i Temraig.

     Hence Achaill was built by the side of Tara, that is to say a ringfort was dug by Cormac in which he would always sleep, as it was not lawful for a king with a blemish to sleep in Tara.

• clad (“trench, ditch”)

• Irish: claidh
• Manx: cleigh
• Scottish Gaelic: cladhaich

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 claidid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language