Our language, after time, becomes clipped (4)
I believe the answer is:
erse
If this is the answer, I'm afraid I cannot explain it.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for erse that I've seen before include "Celtic tongue" , "Kind of Gaelic for seer" , "Old Gaelic for the seer" , "Possibly the language" , "Old Scots or Irish Gaelic" .)