cliath

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish clíath, from Proto-Celtic *klētā. Cognate with French claie and Welsh clwyd.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /clʲiə/

Noun

cliath f (genitive singular cléithe, nominative plural cliatha)

1. wattled, latticed frame; hurdle
2. raft, stretcher; (penal) hurdle
3. (military) phalanx
4. crowd, shoal
5. (music) staff, stave
6. (knitting) (patch of) darning (on stocking)
7. (anatomy, medicine) bodily frame, chest; chestiness, wheeze

Declension

Declension of cliath

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative cliath cliatha Vocative a chliath a chliatha Genitive cléithe cliath Dative cliath cliatha

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an chliath na cliatha Genitive na cléithe na gcliath Dative leis an gcliath don chliath leis na cliatha

Synonyms

• (raft, stretcher, penal hurdle): cliath iompair
• (music): cliath ceoil
• (knitting): cliath ar stoca
• (frame, chest, chestiness, wheeze): cliath uchta

Derived terms

• cliath catha
• cliath fhuirste
• cliath láimhe
• cliathach
• cliathán
• cliathbhosca
• cliathchosach
• cliathobair
• cliathóir
• snáthaid chléithe

 

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish clíath, from Proto-Celtic *klētā.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kliə/

Noun

cliath f (genitive singular clèithe, plural cliathan)

1. grating, grid, lattice
2. harrow
3. shoal (of fish)

Synonyms

• (shoal): sgaoth

Derived terms

• cliath-bhogsa (“crate”)
• cliath-theine (“fire grate”)
• cliath-uinneige (“lattice, window bars”)
• comharra-clèithe, iùl-clèithe (“grid reference”)

 

Verb

cliath (past chliath, future cliathaidh, verbal noun cliathadh, past participle cliathte)

1. harrow
2. copulate (about birds)