cleith
Irish
Alternative forms
- cleath, clith
Etymology
From Old Irish cleth (“housepost”), from Proto-Celtic *klitā (“pillar”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlitós (“inclined”). Compare Sanskrit श्रित (śritá, “attached”), Ancient Greek κλίτα (klíta, “cloister”, Hesychius), and Old English ġehlid (“fence”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /clʲɛ(h)/
Noun
cleith f (genitive singular cleithe, nominative plural cleitheanna)
- pole (long and slender object for construction or support)
- Synonym: cuaille
- cudgel (short heavy club with a rounded head)
- wattle (construction of branches and twigs), stake (in wattling)
- Synonym: caolach
- (nautical) yard (tapered timber from which square sails hang)
- Synonym: slat
- housepost
- (obsolete) spear
- Synonym: sleá
Declension
Declension of cleith
Second declension
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Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
- cleith ailpín (“knobstick”)
- cleith mhullaigh (“ridgepole”)
- cleith pubaill (“tent pole”)
- cleith sháite (“punt pole”)
- cleith uachtair (“gaff (of sail)”)
- cleithire
- idir cleith agus ursain (“by the skin of one's teeth, by a hair's breadth, narrowly”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| cleith | chleith | gcleith |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- “cleith”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 cleth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cleaṫ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 147
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cleith”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 73
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