cliath

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish clíath, from Proto-Celtic *kleitā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to lean”). Cognate with French claie and Welsh clwyd.

Pronunciation

Noun

cliath f (genitive singular cléithe, nominative plural cliatha)

  1. wattled, latticed frame; hurdle
  2. raft, stretcher; (penal) hurdle
  3. (military) phalanx
  4. crowd, shoal
  5. (music) staff, stave
  6. (knitting) (patch of) darning (on stocking)
  7. (anatomy, medicine) bodily frame, chest; chestiness, wheeze

Declension

Declension of cliath (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cliath cliatha
vocative a chliath a chliatha
genitive cléithe cliath
dative cliath cliatha
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an chliath na cliatha
genitive na cléithe na gcliath
dative leis an gcliath
don chliath 		leis na cliatha

Synonyms

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of cliath
radical lenition eclipsis
cliath chliath gcliath

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

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 163, page 62

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish clíath, from Proto-Celtic *kleitā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to lean”).

Pronunciation

Noun

cliath f (genitive singular clèithe, plural cliathan)

  1. grating, grid, lattice
  2. harrow
  3. shoal (of fish)

Synonyms

Derived terms

Verb

cliath (past chliath, future cliathaidh, verbal noun cliathadh, past participle cliathte)

  1. harrow
  2. copulate (about birds)

Mutation

Mutation of cliath
radical lenition
cliath chliath

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

Further reading

  • MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “cliath”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN, page cliath
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