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, no plural)

bare forms 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

Mutated forms of clí

radical	lenition	eclipsis
clí	chlí	gclí

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 175
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1975) The Irish of Cois Fhairrge, Co. Galway: A Phonetic Study, revised edition, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, § 379

Old Irish

Etymology

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

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

Mutation of clí

radical	lenition	nasalization
clí	chlí	clí pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 clí”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language