tlú

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tlu"

Irish

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”).

tlú m (genitive singular tlú, nominative plural tlúnna)

Declension of tlú (fourth declension)

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an tlú	na tlúnna
genitive	an tlú	na dtlúnna
dative	leis an tlú don tlú	leis na tlúnna

Mutated forms of *tlú*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
tlú	thlú	dtlú

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

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