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

Declension of clí (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative clí
vocative a chlí
genitive clí
dative clí
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an chlí
genitive na clí
dative leis an gclí
don chlí

Mutation

Mutated forms of clí
radical lenition eclipsis
clí chlí gclí

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

Further reading

  • Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 175
  • de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1975) The Irish of Cois Fhairrge, Co. Galway: A Phonetic Study, revised edition, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, § 379

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

Mutation of clí
radical lenition nasalization
clí chlí clí
pronounced with /ɡʲ-/

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

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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