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OF THE GAELIC LANGUAGE.
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cith, rage, ardour; *ketu-, cf. cuthach: an cith, attuned, where cith seems from Eng. key, mood.
cithean, a complaining; see caoin.
cithris-chaithris, confusion (M'L.): "hurly-burly"; an onomatopoetic word.
ciùbhran, ciùran, ciùrach, small rain, drizzle, Ir. ceóbhrán. See ceòban. M. Ir. ciabor, mist.
ciuchair, beautiful, dimpling (Sh., Arm.; not H.S.D.):
ciùcharan, ciùcran, a low-voiced plaint: from Norse kjökra, whine, kjökr, a voice stifled with tears.
ciùin, mild, Ir. ciúin, *kivo-ni-, I. E., kivo-, keivo-, akin, dear; Lat. civis, Eng. civil; Norse hýrr, mild, Ag. S. heóre, Ger. ge-heuer, safe; Ch. Sl. po-çivŭ, benignus; Skr. çivá, friendly.
ciùrr, hurt, Ir. cíorrbhaigim, I maim, wound: see ciorram. Cf., however, O. Ir. dufiurrsa, adteram, du-furr, attriveris, iúrthund, to hurt, root org as in tuargan.
clab, an open mouth, Ir. clab; from Eng. clap, a clap, noise, the human tongue. Hence claban, a mill-clapper.
claban, top of the head, brain-pan (H.S.D.); cf. W. clopen, G. claigionn, q.v. Possibly Pictish?
clàbar, filth, mire, clay, Ir. clábar (whence Eng. clabber); cf. làban.
clabar-nasg, the clasp of wooden cow collar (Arg.):
clabog, a good bargain, great pennyworth:
clach, a stone, Ir., E. Ir. cloch, W. clwg, a rock, detached rock, clog, a rock, clogan, a large stone, *klukâ; root kal, kl-, hard; Got. hallus, stone, Norse hella, flat stone, Skr. çilâ, a stone. Usually correlated with Lat. calculus, a pebble, Eng. calculate.
clachan, kirk or kirk town, Ir. clochán, monastic stone-cells singly or in group; also G. and Ir. "stepping stones".
clàd, comb wool, clàd, a wool comb; from Sc. claut, clauts, wool comb, also a "clutching hand, a hoe or scraper"; from claw.
cladach, a shore, beach, so Ir., *claddo-, "a score, shore"; from clad of cladh, q.v.
clàdan, a burr, a thing that sticks, Ir. cladán, burr, flake; from clàd.
cladh, churchyard, Ir. cladh, a bank, ditch, E. Ir. clad, a ditch, W. cladd, clawdd, fossa, Cor. cledh (do.), Br. cleuz (do.), *klado-, *klâdo; root kela, kla, break, split, hit; Gr. κλαδαρός, easily broken; Lat. clâdes; Russ. kladu, cut. See further claidheamh, sword. Hence cladhaich, dig.
cladhaire, a poltroon, so Ir.; "digger, clod-hopper", from cladh?
clag, a bell, Ir. clog, O. Ir. clocc, W., Cor. cloch, Br. kloc'h, *klokko-, *kloggo-; root, klog, klag, sound; Lat. clango, Eng. clang; Gr. κλάζω, κλαγγή, clang; Lit. klagėti, cackle. Bez. suggests
