clobha

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Classical Gaelic clobh, clobhadh,[1] from Middle Irish cloba,[2] from Old Norse klof (“fissure”)[3] and/or klofi (“fork in a river”),[4] from the root of Proto-Germanic *kleubaną (“to split, cleave”). Cognate with Irish tlú and Manx clou.

Pronunciation

  • (Lewis) IPA(key): /ˈkʰl̪ˠo.u/, /ˈkʰl̪ˠɔ.u/[5]
  • (Uist, Skye) IPA(key): /ˈkʰl̪ˠo.ə/[6], [ˈkʰl̪ˠoˑ.ə][7]

Noun

clobha m (plural clobhan or clobhachan)

  1. tongs

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “clobae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Marstrander, Carl J. S. (1915) Bidrag til det norske sprogs historie i Irland (in Norwegian), Kristiania: Jacob Dybwad, page 132
  3. ^ Farren, Robert (3 December 2014) Old Norse loanwords in modern Irish: Semantic domains, polysemy and causes of semantic change (Bachelor thesis)‎[1], Lund University, page 46
  4. ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “clobha”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎[2], Stirling, →ISBN, page 89
  5. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  6. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1941) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. II: The dialects of Skye and Ross-shire, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page 61
  7. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎[3], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “clobha”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[4], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
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