cliathaire

Middle Irish

Etymology

cliath +‎ -aire

Pronunciation

• (earlier) IPA^(key): /ˈkʲlʲiə̯θərʲə/
• (later) IPA^(key): /ˈkʲlʲiə̯hərʲə/

Noun

cliathaire m (plural cliathaireada)

1. a sept of some kind (precise is meaning is unclear)

Further reading

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