cliabhrach

Irish

Alternative forms

  • cliabhlach, cliabhradh[1]

Etymology

From cliabh (“ribbed frame; body, chest”).

Pronunciation

Noun

cliabhrach m (genitive singular cliabhraigh, nominative plural cliabhraigh)

  1. chest, thorax (region of the mammalian body)

Declension

Declension of cliabhrach (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative cliabhrach cliabhraigh
vocative a chliabhraigh a chliabhracha
genitive cliabhraigh cliabhrach
dative cliabhrach cliabhraigh
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an cliabhrach na cliabhraigh
genitive an chliabhraigh na gcliabhrach
dative leis an gcliabhrach
don chliabhrach 		leis na cliabhraigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of cliabhrach
radical lenition eclipsis
cliabhrach chliabhrach gcliabhrach

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

References

  1. ^ “cliabhrach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 174
  3. ^ de Búrca, Seán (1958), The Irish of Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo: A Phonemic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, section 142, page 29

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