cliath
Irish (Donegal)
/clʲiə/
noun
Definitions
- wattled, latticed frame; hurdle
- raft, stretcher; (penal) hurdle
- (military) phalanx
- crowd, shoal
- (music) staff, stave
- (knitting) (patch of) darning (on stocking)
- (anatomy) bodily frame, chest; chestiness, wheeze
Etymology
Inherited from Old Irish clíath inherited from Proto-Celtic *klētā (hurdle, wattled frame) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (lean, shelter, cover, slope, incline, leanVerb).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱley-
Gloss
lean, shelter, cover, slope, incline, leanVerb
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
坂
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -cline English
- acclivity English
- anticline English
- clitellae Latin
- clivius Latin
- clīvus Latin
- declinare Latin
- dēclīnātiōnem, dēclīnātiō Latin
- inclīnō Latin
- prōclīvitās Latin
- reclino, reclīnāre Latin
- claie French
- κλίμα Ancient Greek
- κλίνειν Ancient Greek
- κλίνω Ancient Greek
- κλισμός Ancient Greek
- ἑτερόκλιτος Ancient Greek
- *ḱley- Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱley-t- Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱleytro Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱleywo- Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱleywós Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱlitóm Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱloy-wo-m Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱléyeti Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱléyteh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱléytreh₂, *ḱléy-treh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *hlainiz Proto-Germanic
- *hlidą Proto-Germanic
- *hlināną Proto-Germanic
- *hliþą Proto-Germanic
- lider Swedish
- *slojь Proto-Slavic
- cloie Old French
- cheda Galician
- chedeiro Galician
- clwyd Welsh
- clwydau Welsh
- clwydi Welsh
- clíath Old Irish
- cliath Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- 𐌷𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌽𐌴 Gothic
- 𐌷𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌸𐍂𐌰 Gothic
- *klētā Proto-Celtic
- *kl(e)inō Proto-Italic
- *cleta Gaulish
- clwyt Middle Welsh