créatúr
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See also: creatur
Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish crétúir (compare Manx cretoor), from Latin creātūra (“created thing; creature”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Munster) IPA(key): /cɾʲeːˈt̪ˠuːɾˠ/
- (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈcɾʲeːt̪ˠuːɾˠ/
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈcɾʲeːt̪ˠuɾˠ/
Noun
[edit]créatúr m (genitive singular créatúir, nominative plural créatúir)
- creature, created thing
- (in expressions of sympathy) poor creature, poor thing
- (contemptuously) (good for nothing) creature
Declension
[edit]Declension of créatúr
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
créatúr | chréatúr | gcréatúr |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “créatúr”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “creature”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “crétúir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language