crón
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Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Irish crón (“name of a colour, brown, reddish-brown, dark yellow, red”)
Adjective[edit]
crón (genitive singular masculine cróin, genitive singular feminine cróine, plural cróna, comparative cróine)
Declension[edit]
Declension of crón
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | crón | chrón | cróna; chróna² | |
Vocative | chróin | cróna | ||
Genitive | cróne | cróna | crón | |
Dative | crón; chrón¹ |
chrón; chróin (archaic) |
cróna; chróna² | |
Comparative | níos cróne | |||
Superlative | is cróne |
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Noun[edit]
crón m (genitive singular cróin)
Declension[edit]
Declension of crón
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Verb[edit]
crón (present analytic crónann, future analytic crónfaidh, verbal noun crónadh, past participle crónta)
- (transitive, intransitive) Synonym of crónaigh
Conjugation[edit]
conjugation of crón (first conjugation – A)
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Derived terms[edit]
Mutation[edit]
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
crón | chrón | gcrón |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading[edit]
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “crón”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “crón”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “crón”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “crón”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024