cliabh

From Old Irish clíab,^[1] from Proto-Celtic *kleibos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to lean”).

• (Munster, Galway) IPA^(key): /clʲiəvˠ/^[2][3]
• (Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /clʲiəw/^[4][5]

cliabh m (genitive singular cléibh, nominative plural cléibh)

1. basket, creel, pannier
2. breast, bosom, chest, ribs
3. wicker frame (as of a boat)

• 1906, E. C. Quiggin, “Áindrías an Ime”, in A Dialect of Donegal: Being the Speech of Meenawannia in the Parish of Glenties, page 197:

  Seachtmhain roimhe Shamhain chuaidh an Seónstanach siar ⁊ seacht ngearráin ⁊ péire cliabh air ghach gearrán fá choinne a chuid ime.

  A week before Samhain, Johnstone went back with seven geldings and a pair of panniers on each gelding for his butter.

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cliabh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cliabh”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “cliabh”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

From Old Irish clíab, from Proto-Celtic *kleibos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to lean”).

• IPA^(key): /kʰliəv/

cliabh m (genitive singular clèibh, plural clèibh)

1. pannier
2. creel
3. chest, thorax
4. stave (musical notation)

• (chest): broilleach

• cnàimh a' chlèibh (“breastbone”)
• fiabhras-clèibhe (“pneumonia”)

• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “cliabh”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN