clí

clí

See also: cli, CLI, and clì

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /clʲiː/

Noun

clí f (genitive singular clí)

1. Galway form of clé (“left (side opposite right)”)
2. (archaic) dative singular of clé (“left (side opposite right)”)

Declension

Declension of clí

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative clí Vocative a chlí Genitive clí Dative clí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an chlí Genitive na clí Dative leis an gclí don chlí

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
clí	chlí	gclí
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 175.
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1975) The Irish of Cois Fhairrge, Co. Galway: A Phonetic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 379

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *klits (“(wooden) post”).[1]

Noun

clí f

1. housepost
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 33^a5

     Is clí darach Moysi is in tegdais, [i]s hé-som immurgu ↄ·rotaig in tegdais.

     Moses is an oaken pillar in the house: it is He, however, that has built the house.

2. authority, champion

Inflection

Feminine indeclinable
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	clí	clí	clí
Vocative	clí	clí	clí
Accusative	clí	clí	clí
Genitive	clí	clí	clí
Dative	clí	clí	clí
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Feminine t-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	clí	clithL, clí	clith
Vocative	clí	clithL, clí	cletha
Accusative	clithN	clithL, clí	cletha
Genitive	cleth	cleth	clethN
Dative	clithL	clethaib	clethaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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

References

1. Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*klit-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 208

Further reading

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 clí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language