cràbhadh

See also: crábhadh

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish crábud (“piety, devotion, religion”), from Proto-Celtic *krābitus (“devotion, religious practice”), of unknown origin (compare Welsh crefydd from the variant *krābiyos). Pokorny compares Sanskrit श्रम्भते (śrambhate, “to trust”) and constructs a Proto-Indo-European *ḱrebʰ- (“to trust”), but Matasovic calls this "formally extremely difficult" due to the lengthened grade in Celtic.

Noun

cràbhadh m (genitive singular cràbhaidh, plural cràbhaidhean)

1. piety, devoutness

Derived terms

• saobh-chràbhadh

Related terms

• cràbhach

References

• Matasović, Ranko (2009) “krabi”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 220-21