creig

Irish

Alternative forms

• creag

Etymology

From Middle Irish crec, a contracted form of Old Irish carrac, from Proto-Celtic *karsekki, from Proto-Indo-European *kars- (“to scrape roughly”), similar to English harsh.

Alternatively, the Old Irish is from Proto-Celtic *karrikā, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂er- (“hard”) (compare Manx carrick, Welsh carreg).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /cɾʲɛɟ/

Noun

creig f (genitive singular creige, nominative plural creaga)

1. crag, rock

Declension

Declension of creig

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative creig creaga Vocative a chreig a chreaga Genitive creige creaga Dative creig creaga

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an chreig na creaga Genitive na creige na gcreaga Dative leis an gcreig don chreig leis na creaga

Derived terms

• lon creige (“ring ouzel”)
• creig-ghairdín (“rockery”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
creig	chreig	gcreig
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• “creig”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “crec”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “creag”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 192
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “creig”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN