cliath

From Middle Irish clíath, from Proto-Celtic *klētā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to lean”). Cognate with French claie and Welsh clwyd.

• IPA^(key): /clʲiə/

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

• Alternative plural: cléitheacha

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

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “cliath”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 62

From Middle Irish clíath, from Proto-Celtic *klētā, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to lean”).

• IPA^(key): /kʰliə/

cliath f (genitive singular clèithe, plural cliathan)

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

• (shoal): sgaoth

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

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

1. harrow
2. copulate (about birds)

• MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “cliath”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page cliath