cladach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cladach (“stony shore”).

Noun

cladach m (genitive singular cladaigh, nominative plural cladaí)

  1. (geography) shore; beach
    Synonym: trá
  2. (sailing, etc.) (rocky) foreshore
    Synonym: trá
  3. (biology) littoral
  4. bank; heap, quantity

Declension

Derived terms

  • cladach ardaithe (“raised beach”)
  • cladach locha (“lake shore”)
  • cladach (na) farraige (“(the) sea-shore”)
  • cladach rónta (“shoal of seals”)
  • cladach tine (“hearthstone; front of fireplace”)
  • cois cladaigh (“by the (sea-)shore”)
  • fo-chladach (“sublittoral”, noun)
  • fo-chladachúil (“sublittoral”, adjective)
  • iascaireacht chladaigh (“rock-fishing”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cladach chladach gcladach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish cladach (“stony shore”).

Noun

cladach m (genitive singular cladaich, plural cladaichean)

    1. shore, coast
    2. beach
      Synonym: tràigh
  1. anything scattered
  2. sandy plain
  3. channel of a river
  4. death, destruction

Derived terms

Mutation

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

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “cladach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 cladach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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