cráigh

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Irish[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Irish cráidid, from Old Irish *cráidid (whence do·accrádi (to provoke, exasperate)). A denominative verb derived from its verbal noun (Modern Irish crá). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic cràidh.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

cráigh (present analytic cránn, future analytic cráfaidh, verbal noun crá, past participle cráite)

  1. (transitive) agonize, torment, annoy; trouble, distress, grieve
    Synonyms: céas, ciap
    Ná bí do mo chrá.Don’t annoy me.
    an bhean a chráigh mo chroíthe woman who has troubled my heart; the woman who broke my heart

Conjugation[edit]

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cráigh chráigh gcráigh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 145, page 57

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