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EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

EtymologyEdit

Middle English clog (“weight attached to the leg of an animal to impede movement”)

NounEdit

clog (plural clogs)

 
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  1. A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
    Dutch people rarely wear clogs these days.
  2. A blockage.
    The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.
  3. (Britain, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
    • 1987, Withnail and I:
      Withnail: I let him in this morning. He lost one of his clogs.
  4. A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
    • Hudibras
      As a dog […] by chance breaks loose, / And quits his clog.
    • Tennyson
      A clog of lead was round my feet.
  5. That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
    • Burke
      All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression.

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TranslationsEdit

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VerbEdit

clog (third-person singular simple present clogs, present participle clogging, simple past and past participle clogged)

  1. To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
    Hair is clogging the drainpipe.
    The roads are clogged up with traffic.
  2. To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
    • Dryden
      The wings of winds were clogged with ice and snow.
  3. To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
    • Addison
      The commodities are clogged with impositions.
    • Shakespeare
      You'll rue the time / That clogs me with this answer.

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IrishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Irish cloc, from Late Latin clocca (“bell”) (compare Welsh cloch, Cornish clogh, Breton kloc’h), from Proto-Indo-European *kleg- (“to cry, sound”).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

clog m (genitive singular cloig, nominative plural cloig)

  1. bell
  2. clock
  3. blowball, clock (of dandelion)
  4. blister

DeclensionEdit

Declension of clog

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative clog cloig
Vocative a chloig a chloga
Genitive cloig clog
Dative clog cloig

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an clog na cloig
Genitive an chloig na gclog
Dative leis an gclog

don chlog

 leis na cloig
  • Alternative plural: cloganna (Cois Fharraige)

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from clog

VerbEdit

clog (present analytic clogann, future analytic clogfaidh, verbal noun clogadh, past participle clogtha)

  1. (intransitive) ring a bell
  2. (transitive) stun with noise
  3. (intransitive) blister

ConjugationEdit

First Conjugation (A)
singular plural relative autonomous
first second third first second third
indicative present clogaim clogann tú;
clogair†		 clogann sé, sí clogaimid clogann sibh clogann siad;
clogaid†		 a chlogann; a chlogas /
a gclogann*; a gclogas*		 clogtar
past chlog mé; chlogas chlog tú; chlogais chlog sé, sí chlogamar; chlog muid chlog sibh; chlogabhair chlog siad; chlogadar a chlog /
ar chlog*		 clogadh
past habitual chlogainn chlogtá chlogadh sé, sí chlogaimis; chlogadh muid chlogadh sibh chlogaidís; chlogadh siad a chlogadh /
ar chlogadh*		 chlogtaí
future clogfaidh mé;
clogfad		 clogfaidh tú;
clogfair†		 clogfaidh sé, sí clogfaimid;
clogfaidh muid		 clogfaidh sibh clogfaidh siad;
clogfaid†		 a chlogfaidh; a chlogfas /
a gclogfaidh*; a gclogfas*		 clogfar
conditional chlogfainn chlogfá chlogfadh sé, sí chlogfaimis; chlogfadh muid chlogfadh sibh chlogfaidís; chlogfadh siad a chlogfadh /
ar chlogfadh*		 chlogfaí
subjunctive present go gcloga mé;
go gclogad†		 go gcloga tú;
go gclogair†		 go gcloga sé, sí go gclogaimid;
go gcloga muid		 go gcloga sibh go gcloga siad;
go gclogaid†		 — go gclogtar
past dá gclogainn dá gclogtá dá gclogadh sé, sí dá gclogaimis;
dá gclogadh muid		 dá gclogadh sibh dá gclogaidís;
dá gclogadh siad		 — dá gclogtaí
imperative clogaim clog clogadh sé, sí clogaimis clogaigí;
clogaidh†		 clogaidís — clogtar
verbal noun clogadh
past participle clogtha

* Indirect relative
† Dialect form

MutationEdit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
clog chlog gclog
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

ReferencesEdit

  • "clog" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “clog” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
  • “cloc” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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