clíabán

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cliab, from Proto-Celtic *kleibo-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to lean”).

Noun

clíabán m

1. cradle

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Irish: cliabhán
• Manx: clean

Mutation

Mutation of clíabán

radical	lenition	nasalization
clíabán	chlíabán	clíabán pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

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

References

• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “cliabh”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN

Further reading

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