cladhaire

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish cladaire m (ditch digger),[1] from Old Irish clad m (ditch, trench; dyke, earthen rampart).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cladhaire m (genitive singular cladhaire, nominative plural cladhairí)

  1. (literary) ditcher
  2. villain; rogue, trickster
  3. spineless person; coward

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cladhaire chladhaire gcladhaire
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cladaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 195, page 98
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 70, page 30

Further reading

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish cladaire m (ditch digger),[1] from Old Irish clad m (ditch, trench; dyke, earthen rampart).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkʰl̪ˠɤ.ɪɾʲə/

Noun

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cladhaire m (genitive singular cladhaire, plural cladhairean)

  1. coward, poltroon
  2. hero
  3. one superintending the burying of soldiers in an army
  4. gravedigger
  5. rogue

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutation of cladhaire
radical lenition
cladhaire chladhaire

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

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cladaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “cladhaire”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cladaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language