cleitín

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish cletíne.[1] By surface analysis, cleite (“feather, plume”) +‎ -ín. In the sense “pinnule” at least, a calque of Latin pinnula.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈclʲɛtʲi(ː)nʲ/[2]

Noun

cleitín m (genitive singular cleitín, nominative plural cleitíní)

  1. (architecture) eaves (underside of a roof)
  2. (botany) pinnule (subleaflet)
  3. (literary) light javelin, dart

Declension

Declension of cleitín (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cleitín cleitíní
vocative a chleitín a chleitíní
genitive cleitín cleitíní
dative cleitín cleitíní
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an cleitín na cleitíní
genitive an chleitín na gcleitíní
dative leis an gcleitín
don chleitín 		leis na cleitíní

Synonyms

Mutation

Mutated forms of cleitín
radical lenition eclipsis
cleitín chleitín gcleitín

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cleittíne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 232

Further reading

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “cleitín”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 204; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “cleitín”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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