cló

See also: clo, CLO, Clo, clò, and cło

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish cló (metal spike; imprint),[2] from Proto-Celtic *klāwos (compare Breton klao, Welsh clo), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂w- (hook, crook, peg) (compare Latin clāvis).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kl̪ˠoː/, /klˠoː/[3]

Noun

cló m (genitive singular cló, nominative plural clónna)

  1. font, script
    Synonym: clófhoireann
  2. print, impression
    Synonym: prionta
  3. form
    Synonym: riocht
  4. (literary) nail, spike
  5. (medicine) tent (for a wound)
    Synonym: cló gona

Declension

Declension of cló (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cló clónna
vocative a chló a chlónna
genitive cló clónna
dative cló clónna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an cló na clónna
genitive an chló na gclónna
dative leis an gcló
don chló
leis na clónna

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of cló
radical lenition eclipsis
cló chló gcló

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

References

  1. ^ cló”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cló”, 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, § 36, page 20

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