cleith

Irish

Alternative forms

  • cleath, clith[1]

Etymology

From Old Irish cleth (“housepost”),[2] 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)/[3]

Noun

cleith f (genitive singular cleithe, nominative plural cleitheanna)

  1. pole (long and slender object for construction or support)
  2. cudgel (short heavy club with a rounded head)
  3. wattle (construction of branches and twigs), stake (in wattling)
  4. (nautical) yard (tapered timber from which square sails hang)
  5. housepost
  6. (obsolete) spear

Declension

Declension of cleith (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cleith cleitheanna
vocative a chleith a chleitheanna
genitive cleithe cleitheanna
dative cleith cleitheanna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an chleith na cleitheanna
genitive na cleithe na gcleitheanna
dative leis an gcleith
don chleith 		leis na cleitheanna

Synonyms

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

Mutated forms of cleith
radical lenition eclipsis
cleith chleith gcleith

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

References

  1. ^ “cleith”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cleth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931), Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 144, page 73

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