cleith

Irish

From Old Irish cleth (“housepost”), from Proto-Celtic *klitā (“pillar”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlitós (“inclined”). Compare Sanskrit श्रित (śritá, “attached”), Ancient Greek κλίτα (klíta, “cloister”, Hesychius), and Old English ġehlid (“fence”).

cleith f (genitive singular cleithe, nominative plural cleitheanna)

pole (long and slender object for construction or support)
Synonym: cuaille
cudgel (short heavy club with a rounded head)
wattle (construction of branches and twigs), stake (in wattling)
Synonym: caolach
(nautical) yard (tapered timber from which square sails hang)
Synonym: slat
housepost
(obsolete) spear
Synonym: sleá

Declension of cleith (second declension)

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an chleith	na cleitha
genitive	na cleithe	na gcleith
dative	leis an gcleith don chleith	leis na cleitha

cleith ailpín (“knobstick”)
cleith mhullaigh (“ridgepole”)
cleith pubaill (“tent pole”)
cleith sháite (“punt pole”)
cleith uachtair (“gaff (of sail)”)
cleithire
idir cleith agus ursain (“by the skin of one's teeth, by a hair's breadth, narrowly”)

Mutated forms of *cleith*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
cleith	chleith	gcleith

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