cléireach

See also: clèireach and Clèireach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cléirech (“cleric; clerk”), from Late Latin clēricus, from Ancient Greek κληρικός (klērikós).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

cléireach m (genitive singular cléirigh, nominative plural cléirigh)

  1. clerk
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 196:
      Do luigh sé isteach mar chléireach siopa i dtigh mór cúraim.
      He went to work as a shop clerk in a large trading house.
  2. (historical) cleric
  3. altar boy
  4. sexton

Declension
Declension of cléireach

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cléireach cléirigh
Vocative a chléirigh a chléireacha
Genitive cléirigh cléireach
Dative cléireach cléirigh

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an cléireach na cléirigh
Genitive an chléirigh na gcléireach
Dative leis an gcléireach

don chléireach

 leis na cléirigh

Derived terms

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cléireach chléireach gcléireach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cléirech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 20

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