cluichech

Old Irish

Etymology

cluiche +‎ -ach

Adjective

cluichech

1. playful, sportive
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 59^a16

     cluichech ― (glosses Latin ludibundus)

Inflection

o/ā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	cluichech	cluichech	cluichech
Vocative	cluichig* cluichech**
Accusative	cluichech	cluichig
Genitive	cluichig	cluichige	cluichig
Dative	cluichiuch	cluichig	cluichiuch
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	cluichig	cluichecha
Vocative	cluichechu cluichecha†
Accusative	cluichechu cluichecha†
Genitive	cluichech
Dative	cluichechaib
Notes	*modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative **modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative † not when substantivized

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cluichech	chluichech	cluichech pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cluichech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language