cladh

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish clad (“ditch, trench”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klˠəi/

Noun

cladh m (genitive singular claidh, nominative plural claidh)

1. (literary) ditch, trench
2. (literary) earthwork

Declension

Declension of cladh

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative cladh claidh Vocative a chlaidh a chladha Genitive claidh cladh Dative cladh claidh

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an cladh na claidh Genitive an chlaidh na gcladh Dative leis an gcladh don chladh leis na claidh

Related terms

• claí

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cladh	chladh	gcladh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 153

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰl̪ˠɤɣ/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish clad (“ditch, trench”).

Noun

cladh m (genitive singular cladha or claidh, plural cladhan)

1. graveyard, churchyard, cemetery, burial ground

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

cladh m (genitive singular cladha, plural cladhan)

1. verbal noun of cladh
2. spawn

Verb

cladh (past chladh, future cladhaidh, verbal noun cladh, past participle cladhte)

1. spawn