tlú

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tlu"

Irish[edit]

Anomalous alteration of now obsolete clobh,^[1] clobhadh,^[2] from Middle Irish cloba^[3] (whence Scottish Gaelic clobha and Manx cloughyn pl), from Old Norse klof (“fissure”)^[4] and/or klofi (“fork in a river”),^[5] from the root of Proto-Germanic *kleubaną (“to split, cleave”).

tlú m (genitive singular tlú, nominative plural tlúnna)

Declension of tlú

Bare forms

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
tlú	thlú	dtlú
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cloḃ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 149
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “clobae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Marstrander, Carl J. S. (1915) Bidrag til det norske sprogs historie i Irland (in Norwegian), Kristiania: Jacob Dybwad, page 132
^ Farren, Robert (3 December 2014) Old Norse loanwords in modern Irish: Semantic domains, polysemy and causes of semantic change (Bachelor thesis)‎^[1], Lund University, page 46
^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “clobha”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[2], Stirling, →ISBN, page 89
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 77