crá
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish crád, perhaps related to Old Irish tacráth, a borrowing from Latin acritas (“sharpness, pungency”), but this doesn't account for the -á-. Possibly instead from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]crá m (genitive singular as substantive crá, genitive as verbal noun cráite)
- verbal noun of cráigh
- anguish, torment, pain, torture
- distress ((cause of) discomfort), misery
- Synonym: angar
- destruction
Declension
[edit]As substantive:
Declension of crá
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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As verbal noun:
Declension of crá
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
[edit]Mutation
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
crá | chrá | gcrá |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- “crá”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “crád”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cráḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 187
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “crá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 57
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 65
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