crá croí

Irish

Alternative forms

• crádh croidhe (obsolete)

Etymology

Literally, “anguish of a heart”.

Noun

crá croí m (genitive singular crá chroí)

1. heartbreak, heartache

   Synonyms: briseadh croí, croíbhriseadh

2. nuisance (minor annoyance or inconvenience; person or thing causing annoyance of inconvenience)
3. pain, torment (suffering or anguish, especially mental)
4. nuisance, pain, pest, vexation (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience)

   Synonym: pian sa tóin

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
crá croí	chrá croí	gcrá croí
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• “crá”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “cráḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “crá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN