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From Old Irish cloch.

clach f (dative singular cloich, genitive singular cloiche, plural clachan)

  1. stone
  2. rock
  3. (unit of measure) stone
    clach bhuntàta ― a stone of potatoes
  4. testicle

clach (past chlach, future clachaidh, verbal noun clachadh, past participle clachte)

  1. stone
    Clach a' bhana-bhuidseach! ― Stone the witch!
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
clach chlach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
  1. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “clach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cloch”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language