cloigín

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish clucín, from Old Irish cluccéne.[2] By surface analysis, clog +‎ -ín.

Pronunciation

Noun

cloigín m (genitive singular cloigín, nominative plural cloigíní)

  1. diminutive of clog: a little bell or clock; little blister or bubble
    cloigín proinntí ― refectory bell
  2. pendant (dangling part of an earring)
  3. cluster (of houses etc.)
    cloigín eochrach ― bunch of keys
  4. dandelion clock (seed head of dandelion)
  5. (anatomy) vesicle (small sac or cyst)

Declension

Declension of cloigín (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cloigín cloigíní
vocative a chloigín a chloigíní
genitive cloigín cloigíní
dative cloigín cloigíní
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an cloigín na cloigíní
genitive an chloigín na gcloigíní
dative leis an gcloigín
don chloigín 		leis na cloigíní

Derived terms

  • cloigín dorais (“doorbell”)
  • cloigín gorm (“bluebell”)
  • cloigín oíche (“night bell”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cloigín
radical lenition eclipsis
cloigín chloigín gcloigín

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

References

  1. ^ “cloigín”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cluicíne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 154

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