rocluinethar

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ɸro- (whence ro-) + *klinutor (metathesized to *klunitor in Proto-Goidelic), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱl̥néwti (compare Sanskrit शृणोति (śṛṇoti, “hears”)) from *ḱlew- (“to hear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [roˈklunʲeθar]

Verb

ro·cluinethar (prototonic ·cluinethar, verbal noun clúas)

1. to hear

For quotations using this term, see Citations:rocluinethar.

Inflection

Complex, class B V present, reduplicated preterite, a future, e subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Deut.	ro·cluiniur		ro·cluinethar	ro·cluinemmar		ro·cluinetar	ro·cluinter
	Prot.	·cluiniur		·cluinethar	·cluinemmar		·cluinetar	·cluinter
Imperfect indicative	Deut.			ro·cluined
	Prot.			·cluined
Preterite	Deut.			co·cúalae				co·closs
	Prot.	·cúala	·cúala	·cúalae	·cúalammar	·cúalaid	·cúalatar	·clos, ·closs	·cloth, ·clossa
Perfect	Deut.	ro·cúala	ro·cúala	ro·cúalae	ro·cúalammar	ro·cúalaid	ro·cúalatar	ro·closs	ro·clossa
	Prot.	·cúala	·cúala	·cúalae	·cúalammar	·cúalaid	·cúalatar	·clos, ·closs	·clossa
Future	Deut.			ro·cechladar				ro·cechlastar
	Prot.			·cechladar				·cechlastar	·cechlaiter
Conditional	Deut.							ro·cechlastai
	Prot.	·cechlainn						·cechlastai
Present subjunctive	Deut.	ro·cloor, ro·clór	ro·cloither	ro·cloathar	ro·cloammar		ro·cloatar		·cloatar
	Prot.	·cloor, ·clór	cloither	·cloathar	cloammar
Past subjunctive	Deut.			ro·cload		ro·cloithe	ro·cloitis
	Prot.			·cload	·cloimmis	·cloithe	·cloitis
Imperative			cluinte		cluinem
Verbal noun		clúas
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Irish: cluin
• Manx: cluin
• Scottish Gaelic: cluinn

Mutation

Mutation of rocluinethar

radical	lenition	nasalization
ro·cluinethar	ro·chluinethar	ro·cluinethar 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), “rocluinethar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language