cleith

Irish

Alternative forms

  • cleath, clith

Etymology

From Old Irish cleth (“housepost”), from Proto-Celtic *klitā (“pillar”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlitós (“inclined”). Compare Sanskrit श्रित (śritá, “attached”), Ancient Greek κλίτα (klíta, “cloister”, Hesychius), and Old English ġehlid (“fence”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /clʲɛ(h)/

Noun

cleith f (genitive singular cleithe, nominative plural cleitheanna)

  1. pole (long and slender object for construction or support)
    Synonym: cuaille
  2. cudgel (short heavy club with a rounded head)
  3. wattle (construction of branches and twigs), stake (in wattling)
    Synonym: caolach
  4. (nautical) yard (tapered timber from which square sails hang)
    Synonym: slat
  5. housepost
  6. (obsolete) spear
    Synonym: sleá

Declension

Declension of cleith (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cleith cleitha
vocative a chleith a chleitha
genitive cleithe cleith
dative cleith cleitha
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an chleith na cleitha
genitive na cleithe na gcleith
dative leis an gcleith
don chleith 		leis na cleitha

Derived terms

  • cleith ailpín (“knobstick”)
  • cleith mhullaigh (“ridgepole”)
  • cleith pubaill (“tent pole”)
  • cleith sháite (“punt pole”)
  • cleith uachtair (“gaff (of sail)”)
  • cleithire
  • idir cleith agus ursain (“by the skin of one's teeth, by a hair's breadth, narrowly”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cleith
radical lenition eclipsis
cleith chleith gcleith

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

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