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.