tlú

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "tlu"

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Anomalous alteration of Classical Gaelic clobh,[1] clobhadh,[2] from Middle Irish cloba[3] (whence Scottish Gaelic clobha and Manx cloughyn pl), from Old Norse klof (“fissure”)[4] and/or klofi (“fork in a river”),[5] from the root of Proto-Germanic *kleubaną (“to split, cleave”).

Pronunciation

Noun

tlú m (genitive singular tlú, nominative plural tlúnna)

  1. tongs
    Synonym: maide briste

Declension

Declension of tlú (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative tlú tlúnna
vocative a thlú a thlúnna
genitive tlú tlúnna
dative tlú tlúnna
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an tlú na tlúnna
genitive an tlú na dtlúnna
dative leis an tlú
don tlú 		leis na tlúnna

Mutation

Mutated forms of tlú
radical lenition eclipsis
tlú thlú dtlú

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

References

  1. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cloḃ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 149
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “clobae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Marstrander, Carl J. S. (1915) Bidrag til det norske sprogs historie i Irland (in Norwegian), Kristiania: Jacob Dybwad, page 132
  4. ^ 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
  5. ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “clobha”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN, page 89
  6. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 202, page 77

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