cluimhreach

Irish

Alternative forms
  • claimhreach

Etymology

Apparently from clúmh (“down, feathers”), though the shortening of the vowel is unexplained.

Pronunciation
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈklˠɨ̞̃vʲɾʲa(x)/

Noun

cluimhreach f (genitive singular cluimhrí) or
cluimhreach m (genitive singular cluimhrigh)

  1. plumage (collection of feathers covering a bird’s body), feathers

Declension

As a feminine second-declension noun:

Declension of cluimhreach

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative cluimhreach
Vocative a chluimhreach
Genitive cluimhrí
Dative cluimhreach
cluimhrigh (archaic, dialectal)

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an chluimhreach
Genitive na cluimhrí
Dative leis an gcluimhreach
leis an gcluimhrigh (archaic, dialectal)

don chluimhreach
don chluimhrigh (archaic, dialectal)

As a masculine first-declension noun:

Declension of cluimhreach

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative cluimhreach
Vocative a chluimhrigh
Genitive cluimhrigh
Dative cluimhreach

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an cluimhreach
Genitive an chluimhrigh
Dative leis an gcluimhreach

don chluimhreach

Derived terms

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cluimhreach chluimhreach gcluimhreach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
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