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Clyde

Cluaidh


Water

Location

Renfrewshire

Inverclyde

G82

NS345755


English / Map Form: Clyde

Gaelic Form: Cluaidh


Location: Southwest Scotland

Post Town: DUMBARTON

Postcode area: G82

County: Renfrewshire

Local Authority: Inverclyde

English / Map Form: Clyde

Gaelic Form: Cluaidh


Language Notes

 

Sources

klōta 50 AD Ptolemy
clwei Lhuyd c. 1699 MS1369 2r
Uisge Chluaidh 1801, Orain Ghaelach le Iain MacGhrigair
a suas Abhainn Chluaidh 1879 An t-Òranaiche, 35
gu Uisge Chluaidh 1879 An t-Òranaiche, 252
gu bruachan Chluaidh Baird Chill-Chomain Ed. Hector MacDougall, 22
ri taobh Abhainn Chluaithe 1895 Coinneach ‘us Coille – Alasdair MacDhòmhnull, 4
Abhainn Chluaidh 1919? Cruinne-eolas Alba in an Deo-Greine Leabhar XIV
uisge Chluaidh 1924 Poems of Alasdair MacMhaighstir Alasdair, 245
Abhainn Chluaidh, Srath Chluaidh Watson Ròsg Gàidhlig, 262
Cluaidh.. g. Chl. 1932 Dieckhoff [headform is Firth of Clyde]
in modern Gaelic Cluaidh MacKinnon, Place-names and Personal Names in Argyll
kLuy Diack MS2276
Cluaidh Robertson MS405, 112
Abhainn Chluaidh Am Filidh Latharnach le Calum Caimbeul MacPhàil, 154
Abhainn Chluaidh ‘An Cuilitheann, Somhairle MacGilleEathain

Additional Information

The Clyde is the only familiar river and it is known as An Rìobhar a’ dol sìos an robhar a’ dol suas an rìobhar.Robertson MS420, 80 [in vocabulary list of Arran Gaelic]

This is the form for the Clyde, which it should be said, lenites in the genitive thus:

Inverclyde ~ Inbhir Chluaidh

Strathclyde ~ Srath Chluaidh

River Clyde ~ Abhainn Chluaidh

It seems that both Cluaidh and Uisge Chluaidh as well as Abhainn Chluaidh are used for the actual River Clyde.

Alternative Forms

 River Clyde

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