tlú
See also: Appendix:Variations of "tlu"
Irish
Alternative forms
- tlúdh, tlúgh (obsolete)
Etymology
Anomalous alteration of now obsolete clobh,[1] clobhadh,[2] from Middle Irish cloba[3] (whence Scottish Gaelic clobha and Manx cloughyn pl), from Old Norse klof (“fissure”)[4] and/or klofi (“fork in a river”),[5] from the root of Proto-Germanic *kleubaną (“to split, cleave”).
Declension
Declension of tlú
Fourth declension
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Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| tlú | thlú | dtlú |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cloḃ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 149
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “clobae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Marstrander, Carl J. S. (1915) Bidrag til det norske sprogs historie i Irland (in Norwegian), Kristiania: Jacob Dybwad, page 132
- Farren, Robert (3 December 2014) Old Norse loanwords in modern Irish: Semantic domains, polysemy and causes of semantic change (Bachelor thesis), Lund University, page 46
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “clobha”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page 89
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 77
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tlú”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “tlúġ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 738
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