clí

See also: cli, CLI, and clì

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /clʲiː/

Noun

clí f (genitive singular clí)

  1. Galway form of clé (left (side opposite right))
  2. (archaic) dative singular of clé (left (side opposite right))

Declension

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
clí chlí gclí
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *klits ((wooden) post).[1]

Noun

clí f

  1. housepost
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 33a5
      Is clí darach Moysi is in tegdais, [i]s hé-som immurgu ↄ·rotaig in tegdais.
      Moses is an oaken pillar in the house: it is He, however, that has built the house.
  2. authority, champion

Inflection

Feminine indeclinable
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative clí clí clí
Vocative clí clí clí
Accusative clí clí clí
Genitive clí clí clí
Dative clí clí clí
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization
Feminine t-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative clí clithL, clí clith
Vocative clí clithL, clí cletha
Accusative clithN clithL, clí cletha
Genitive cleth cleth clethN
Dative clithL clethaib clethaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
clí chlí clí
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*klit-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 208

Further reading

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