claon-

See also: claon

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cláen (“uneven, crooked, sloping”).

Prefix

claon-

1. crooked, sloping, inclined
2. perverse, unjust; evil
3. oblique, indirect
4. plagi(o)-, clino-

Derived terms

Irish terms prefixed with claon-

claonamharc

claonbhreith

claonchló

claondearc

claonfhéachaint

claonghraf

claoninsint

claonloighic

claonmhéadar

claonpháirteach

claonrosc

claonsúil

claontuiseal

• claonairde f (“slant height”)
• claonamharc m (“sidelong look; squint”)
• claonbheart m (“crooked act; underhand trick”)
• claonbhreith f (“perverse judgment, unjust judgment”)
• claonchló m (“negative”)
• claondearc f (“ogling eye; cross-eye”)
• claonfhéachaint f (“sidelong glance; squint”)
• claonfhód m (“sloping sod; sod turned against slope of hill”)
• claonfhoirm f (“oblique form”)
• claonfholt m (“flowing locks”)
• claonfort m (“glacis”)
• claonghraf m (“clinograph”)
• claoninsint f (“indirect speech”)
• claonloighic f (“paralogism”)
• claonpháirteach (“partisan”, adjective)
• claonrosc m (“ogling eye”)
• claonsiúntán m (“lean-to shed”)
• claonsmacht m (“unjust rule”)
• claonsúil f (“ogling eye; cross-eye, squint”)
• claontrópacht f (“plagiotropism”)
• claontuiseal m (“oblique case”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of claon-

radical	lenition	eclipsis
claon-	chlaon-	gclaon-

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “claon-”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN