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Irish
Etymology
From clog (“bell”) + cás (“case, container”).
Noun
clogás m (genitive singular clogáis, nominative plural clogáis)
- bell tower, belfry
- c. 1480 The Gaelic Maundeville, Irish translation of John Mandeville's Travels
tor álainn mur clogcás aran táob tíar di- a fair tower for bells
Declension
Derived terms
- clocásach (“towered, with a tower or belfry”, adjective)
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| clogás
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chlogás
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gclogás
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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
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “clogás”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “clocás”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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