crith

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek κριθή (krithḗ, barley corn, a small weight).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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crith (plural criths)

  1. (physics) the weight of 1 litre of hydrogen at standard temperature and pressure. Equal to approximately 0.09 grams.

Anagrams

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish crith, from Proto-Celtic *kritos (trembling, fever).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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crith m (genitive singular creatha, nominative plural creathanna)

  1. a shake, quiver, tremble
  2. verbal noun of crith

Declension

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Verb

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crith (present analytic critheann, future analytic crithfidh, verbal noun crith, past participle crite)

  1. to shake, quiver, tremble

Conjugation

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
crith chrith gcrith
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *kritos (trembling, fever). Cognate to Welsh cryd (fever).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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crith m (genitive unattested)

  1. shaking, trembling

Inflection

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Unknown, but Matasović tentatively classifies this as an o-stem.[1] A u-stem declension with genitive cretha can be found in Middle Irish.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
crith chrith crith
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*krito-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 225

Further reading

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish crith, from Old Irish crith, from Proto-Celtic *kritos.

Verb

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crith (past chrith, future crithidh, verbal noun crith, past participle crithte)

  1. shake, shiver, tremble, quaver

Noun

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crith f (genitive singular crithe, plural crithean)

  1. verbal noun of crith
  2. shiver, tremble, shudder, tremor

Derived terms

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