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Irish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Irish clúain, from Proto-Celtic *klownis.
Noun
cluain f (genitive singular cluana, nominative plural cluainte or cluanta)
- meadow
- Synonym: móinéar
- after-grass
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
From Old Irish clúain.
Noun
cluain f (genitive singular cluana)
- deception; persuasion, beguilement
- dissimulation
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| cluain
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chluain
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gcluain
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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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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cluain”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cluain”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “cluain”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “clúain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “clúain”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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