- claoidh
- vex, oppress, Irish claoidhim, Old Irish clóim, Welsh cluddio, overwhelm, *cloid; Indo-European klei, incline, as in claon, q.v. Windisch and Stokes refer it to *cloviô, root qlov, qlav, qlu, shut in, Latin claudo, close, claudus, lame, Greek $$Gkleís, $$Gkleidós, key.
Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. Alexander Gairm Publications. 1982.