clupaid

Irish

Alternative forms

• cluipide, clupaide, culpaid

Etymology

From Old Irish culpait (“hood, cowl”), from Latin culcita (“mattress, pillow”).

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈklˠʌpˠədʲə/ (corresponding to the form clupaide), /ˈklˠʌpˠətʲə/ (as if spelled clupaite)

Noun

clupaid f (genitive singular clupaide, nominative plural clupaidí)

1. fold, wrinkle (in clothing)

Declension

Declension of clupaid (second declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative clupaid clupaidí vocative a chlupaid a chlupaidí genitive clupaide clupaidí dative clupaid clupaidí forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an chlupaid na clupaidí genitive na clupaide na gclupaidí dative leis an gclupaid don chlupaid leis na clupaidí

Mutation

Mutated forms of clupaid

radical	lenition	eclipsis
clupaid	chlupaid	gclupaid

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

Further reading

• “clupaid”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cluipide”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 153
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “clupaid”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN