clàr

See also: clar, clár, Clár, and clâr

Scottish Gaelic

From Old Irish clár, from Proto-Celtic *klāros, *klārom (“table”), likely cognate with Ancient Greek κλῆρος (klêros), from Proto-Indo-European *kleh₂- (“to lay out”), from *kelh₂- (“to hit, cut down”).

clàr m (genitive singular clàir, plural clàran or clàir)

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
clàr	chlàr
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “clár”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 206-207

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