cladach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cladach (“stony shore”).

Noun

cladach m (genitive singular cladaigh, nominative plural cladaí)

  1. (geography) shore; beach
    Synonym: trá
  2. (sailing, etc.) (rocky) foreshore
    Synonym: trá
  3. (biology) littoral
  4. bank; heap, quantity

Declension

Declension of cladach (irregular)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cladach cladaí
vocative a chladach a chladaí
genitive cladaigh cladach
dative cladach cladaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an cladach na cladaí
genitive an chladaigh na gcladach
dative leis an gcladach
don chladach 		leis na cladaí

Derived terms

  • cladach ardaithe (“raised beach”)
  • cladach locha (“lake shore”)
  • cladach (na) farraige (“(the) sea-shore”)
  • cladach rónta (“shoal of seals”)
  • cladach tine (“hearthstone; front of fireplace”)
  • cois cladaigh (“by the (sea-)shore”)
  • fo-chladach (“sublittoral”, noun)
  • fo-chladachúil (“sublittoral”, adjective)
  • iascaireacht chladaigh (“rock-fishing”)
  • súmaire cladaigh (“sea cucumber”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cladach
radical lenition eclipsis
cladach chladach gcladach

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

References

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish cladach (“stony shore”).

Noun

cladach m (genitive singular cladaich, plural cladaichean)

  1. shore, coast
  2. (stony) beach
    Synonym: tràigh
  3. anything scattered
  4. sandy plain
  5. channel of a river
  6. death, destruction

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of cladach
radical lenition
cladach chladach

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

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “cladach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 cladach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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