cruithneachd

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• croineachd
• cruineachd

Etymology

From Old Irish cruithnecht, from a compound whose second element is Proto-Celtic *nixtos (“winnowed, wheat”) (compare Welsh gwe-nith (“wheat”) from *uɸo-nixtos), from Proto-Indo-European *neyk- (“to winnow”). Cognate with Irish cruithneacht and Manx curnaght.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰɾɯɲəxk/

Noun

cruithneachd f

1. wheat

Derived terms

• aran-cruithneachd (“wheat bread”)
• brochan-cruithneachd (“flummery”)
• cruithneachd-buidhe (“buckwheat”)

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
cruithneachd	chruithneachd
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “cruithneachd”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cruithnecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language