tlú

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Anomalous alteration of Classical Gaelic clobh,[1] clobhadh,[2] from Middle Irish cloba[3] (whence Scottish Gaelic clobha and Manx cloughyn pl), from Old Norse klof (fissure)[4] and/or klofi (fork in a river),[5] from the root of Proto-Germanic *kleubaną (to split, cleave).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tlú m (genitive singular tlú, nominative plural tlúnna)

  1. tongs
    Synonym: maide briste

Declension

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
tlú thlú dtlú
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cloḃ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 149
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “clobae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Marstrander, Carl J. S. (1915) Bidrag til det norske sprogs historie i Irland (in Norwegian), Kristiania: Jacob Dybwad, page 132
  4. ^ Farren, Robert (3 December 2014) Old Norse loanwords in modern Irish: Semantic domains, polysemy and causes of semantic change (Bachelor thesis)‎[1], Lund University, page 46
  5. ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “clobha”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[2], Stirling, →ISBN, page 89
  6. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 202, page 77

Further reading

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