clí

See also: cli, CLI, and clì

Irish

clí f (genitive singular clí)

Declension of clí

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
clí	chlí	gclí
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

From Proto-Celtic *klits (“(wooden) post”).^[1]

clí f

housepost
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 33^a5
  Is clí darach Moysi is in tegdais, [i]s hé-som immurgu ↄ·rotaig in tegdais.
  Moses is an oaken pillar in the house: it is He, however, that has built the house.
authority, champion

Feminine indeclinable
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	clí	clí	clí
Vocative	clí	clí	clí
Accusative	clí	clí	clí
Genitive	clí	clí	clí
Dative	clí	clí	clí
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Feminine t-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	clí	clith^L, clí	clith
Vocative	clí	clith^L, clí	cletha
Accusative	clith^N	clith^L, clí	cletha
Genitive	cleth	cleth	cleth^N
Dative	clith^L	clethaib	clethaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
clí	chlí	clí pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*klit-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 208