cléireach

See also: clèireach and Clèireach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cléirech (“cleric; clerk”), from Late Latin clēricus, from Ancient Greek κληρικός (klērikós).[1] By surface analysis, cléir (“clergy”) +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

Noun

cléireach m (genitive singular cléirigh, nominative plural cléirigh)

  1. clerk
  2. (historical) cleric
  3. altar server

Declension

Declension of cléireach (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cléireach cléirigh
vocative a chléirigh a chléireacha
genitive cléirigh cléireach
dative cléireach cléirigh
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an cléireach na cléirigh
genitive an chléirigh na gcléireach
dative leis an gcléireach
don chléireach 		leis na cléirigh

Quotations

  • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 196:
    Do luigh sé isteach mar chléireach siopa i dtigh mór cúraim.
    He went to work as a shop clerk in a large trading house.

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of cléireach
radical lenition eclipsis
cléireach chléireach gcléireach

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cléirech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 37, page 20

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