Argues that clí (m.) ‘poet of the third highest rank’ is distinct from clí (f.) ‘house-post, pillar’, and that cleth (f.) ‘house-post’ and clí (f.) represent an instance of paradigm split. Additionally suggests that clith in Audacht Morainn, §§2.18, 63.163 (as ed. by F. Kelly, 1976) represents an oblique case of clí.