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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Anomalous alteration of now obsolete clobh, clobhadh, from Middle Irish cloba (whence Scottish Gaelic clobha and Manx cloughyn pl), from Old Norse klof (“fissure”) and/or klofi (“fork in a river”), from the root of Proto-Germanic *kleubaną (“to split, cleave”).
Pronunciation
Noun
tlú m (genitive singular tlú, nominative plural tlúnna)
- tongs
- Synonym: maide briste
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| tlú
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thlú
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dtlú
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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
- ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cloḃ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 149
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “clobae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Marstrander, Carl J. S. (1915) Bidrag til det norske sprogs historie i Irland (in Norwegian), Kristiania: Jacob Dybwad, page 132
- ^ Farren, Robert (3 December 2014) Old Norse loanwords in modern Irish: Semantic domains, polysemy and causes of semantic change (Bachelor thesis), Lund University, page 46
- ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “clobha”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page 89
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 77
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