caladh

caladh

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish calad (“shore, port, landing-place”).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

caladh m (genitive singular calaidh, nominative plural calaí)

  1. callow (a low-lying meadow near a river which is regularly submerged)
  2. landing (place on a shoreline where a boat lands)
  3. port, harbour

Declension

Declension of caladh (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative caladh calaí
vocative a chalaidh a chalaí
genitive calaidh calaí
dative caladh calaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an caladh na calaí
genitive an chalaidh na gcalaí
dative leis an gcaladh
don chaladh 		leis na calaí
  • Alternative plural forms: calaithe, caltacha, caltaí

Synonyms

Descendants

  • → English: callow

Mutation

Mutated forms of caladh
radical lenition eclipsis
caladh chaladh gcaladh

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

References

  1. ^ “caladh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 calad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “calaḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla [Irish and English Dictionary], 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 155; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “caladh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

caladh m (genitive singular calaidh, plural calaidhean)

  1. alternative form of cala
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