cliath

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish clíath, from Proto-Celtic *klētā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to lean”). Cognate with French claie and Welsh clwyd.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /clʲiə/[1]

Noun

cliath f (genitive singular cléithe, nominative plural cliatha)

  1. wattled, latticed frame; hurdle
  2. raft, stretcher; (penal) hurdle
  3. (military) phalanx
  4. crowd, shoal
  5. (music) staff, stave
  6. (knitting) (patch of) darning (on stocking)
  7. (anatomy, medicine) bodily frame, chest; chestiness, wheeze

Declension
Declension of cliath

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cliath cliatha
Vocative a chliath a chliatha
Genitive cléithe cliath
Dative cliath cliatha

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an chliath na cliatha
Genitive na cléithe na gcliath
Dative leis an gcliath

don chliath

 leis na cliatha

Synonyms
  • (raft, stretcher, penal hurdle): cliath iompair
  • (music): cliath ceoil
  • (knitting): cliath ar stoca
  • (frame, chest, chestiness, wheeze): cliath uchta

Derived terms

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cliath chliath gcliath
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 62

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish clíath, from Proto-Celtic *klētā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to lean”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kʰliə/

Noun

cliath f (genitive singular clèithe, plural cliathan)

  1. grating, grid, lattice
  2. harrow
  3. shoal (of fish)

Synonyms

Derived terms

Verb

cliath (past chliath, future cliathaidh, verbal noun cliathadh, past participle cliathte)

  1. harrow
  2. copulate (about birds)

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
cliathchliath
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “cliath”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN, page cliath
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