cloíne

Old Irish

Etymology

From clóen ‎ -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkloːi̯nʲe/

Noun

cloíne f (genitive cloíne, nominative plural cloíni)

1. iniquity, wickedness
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 21^c11

     .i. as·berat as nDía cloíne Macc, ol sodin as gó doib.

     i.e. who say that the Son is a God of iniquity, which, however, is a lie on their part.

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 55^c19

     Cid in tan no·mbíth inna ligiu, ba ac imrádud chloíne no·bíth.

     Even when he used to be in his bed, he used to be meditating iniquity.

2. (in the plural) evil deeds

Declension

Feminine iā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	cloíneL	cloíniL	cloíni
Vocative	cloíneL	cloíniL	cloíni
Accusative	cloíniN	cloíniL	cloíni
Genitive	cloíne	cloíneL	cloíneN
Dative	cloíniL	cloínib	cloínib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: claíne
  • Irish: claoine
  • Scottish Gaelic: claoine

Mutation

Mutation of cloíne

radical	lenition	nasalization
cloíne	chloíne	cloíne pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “claíne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language