tlú
See also: Appendix:Variations of "tlu"
Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Anomalous alteration of now obsolete 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 edit
Noun edit
tlú m (genitive singular tlú, nominative plural tlúnna)
- tongs
- Synonym: maide briste
Declension edit
Declension of tlú
Mutation edit
| 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 edit
- ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cloḃ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 149
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, 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, page 77
Further reading edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tlú”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “tlúġ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 738