clò

See also: clo, CLO, Clo, cló, and cło

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

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Noun

clò m (genitive singular clò or clòtha, plural clòithean or clòitean)

1. cloth
2. (specifically) tweed

Synonyms

• (cloth): aodach

Etymology 2

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).

Noun

clò m (genitive singular clòdha, plural clòdhan)

1. print
2. printing press
3. type

   clò trom ― bold type

Derived terms

• beart-chlò f (“printing press”)
• clò eadailteach m (“italics”)
• clò-bhuail (“print”, verb) (with a machine)
• clò-ghrafachd f (“typography”)
• clò-sgrìobh (“type”, verb)
• clò-sgrìobhadair m (“typewriter”)
• clò-sgrìobhadh m (“typescript”)
• clò-sgrìobhaiche m (“typist”)
• clòdhadair m (“typesetter”)
• cruth-clò m (“font”)
• sgrìobh mar chlò (“print”, verb) (handwriting)

Mutation

Mutation of clò

radical	lenition
clò	chlò

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

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “clò”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cló”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language