cró

See also: cro and CRO

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /kɾˠoː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /kɾˠɔː/

Etymology 1

From Old Irish cró, from Proto-Celtic *krawos (“enclosure”). Cognate with Breton krao (“eye of a needle”), kraou (“stable”), Welsh crau (“hole; eye socket; sty”), Cornish krow (“hut, shed, sty”). From Proto-Indo-European *krewH- (“to cover”), compare Old English hrēodan (“to cover”), Old Church Slavonic крꙑти (kryti, “to hide”).

Noun

cró m (genitive singular cró, nominative plural cróite)

1. eye, socket
2. bore
3. (photography) aperture
4. ring
5. enclosure; fold, pen
6. (small) outbuilding
7. mean dwelling, hovel
8. hollow; (topography) hollow, hole

Declension

Declension of cró

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative cró cróite Vocative a chró a chróite Genitive cró cróite Dative cró cróite

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an cró na cróite Genitive an chró na gcróite Dative leis an gcró don chró leis na cróite

Derived terms

• bolta cró
• cró an chinn
• cró beaignite
• cró béar
• cró beithíoch
• cró bíomail
• cró bolgáin
• cró bolta
• cró catha
• cró cearc
• Cró Choinn
• cró Chríost
• cró coinín
• cró coinnleora
• cró comhla
• cró cúltreorach
• cró dornálaíochta
• cró folaigh
• cró gunna
• cró lampa
• cró madra
• cró meáite
• cró muc
• cró muice
• cró na baithise
• cró pacála
• cró pinn
• cró píopa
• cró ribeach
• cró scuaibe
• cró sleá
• cró sluaiste
• cró snáthaide
• cró sorcais
• cró stile
• cró tarbhchomhraic
• cró troda
• cró uimhriúil
• crúca is cró
• tomhas cró

 

Etymology 2

From Old Irish crú (“blood”), from Proto-Celtic *krowos, from Proto-Indo-European *kréwh₂s.

Noun

cró m (genitive singular cró)

1. blood, gore

Declension

Declension of cró

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative cró Vocative a chró Genitive cró Dative cró

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an cró Genitive an chró Dative leis an gcró don chró

Derived terms

• cosair chró (“shambles”)

 

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cró”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cró”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 196
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cró”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 197
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 cró”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “3 cró”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Entries containing “cró” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “cró” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “crau2”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “cró”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page 108
• Matasović, Ranko (2011 December) “Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)”, in Homepage of Ranko Matasović‎^[2], Zagreb, page 23

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cró	chró	gcró
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.