cló
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- clódh (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish cló (“metal spike, nail; imprint, impression; form, shape, appearance; print of a book”), from Proto-Celtic *klāwos (compare Breton klao, Welsh clo), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kleh₂w- (“hook, crook, peg”) (compare Latin clāvis).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]cló m (genitive singular cló, nominative plural clónna)
- font, script
- Synonym: clófhoireann
- print, impression
- Synonym: prionta
- form
- Synonym: riocht
- (literary) nail, spike
- (medicine) tent (for a wound)
- Synonym: cló gona
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]- claonchló m (“negative”)
- cló-eagar m (“composition”)
- cló-eagraigh (“compose”, verb)
- cló-eagraí m (“compositor”)
- cló-inneall m (“printing-machine”)
- clóbhuail, clóigh (“print”, verb)
- clóchuir (“typeset”, verb)
- clóchur m (“typesetting”)
- clódóir m (“printer; dyer”)
- clóghrafach (“typographical”, adjective)
- clóghrafaíocht f (“typography”)
- clóghrafóir m (“typographer”)
- clólann f (“printing works, print room”)
- clólíne f (“line of type”)
- clómhiotal m (“type metal”)
- clópháipéar m (“printing paper”)
- clóphreas m (“printing press”)
- clóscríbhinn f (“typescript”)
- clóscríbhneoireacht f (“typewriting, typing”)
- clóscríobh (“type, typewrite”, verb)
- clóscríobhaí m (“typist”)
- clóscríobhán m (“typewriter”)
- clóscríobh m (“typing, typewriting”)
- fótachló m (“phototype”)
- iarnchló m (“ferrotype”)
Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | eclipsis |
|---|---|---|
| cló | chló | gcló |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cló”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cló”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “clóḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 150
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cló”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “cló”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 20
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- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish masculine nouns
- Irish literary terms
- ga:Medicine
- Irish fourth-declension nouns
- ga:Printing
- ga:Typography