anró

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

anró m (genitive singular anró)

1. hardship (due to severe weather)
2. wretched condition

Declension

Declension of anró

Fourth declension

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

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an t-anró Genitive an anró Dative leis an anró don anró

Derived terms

• éan an anró (“storm petrel; person who is out in all kinds of weather”)
• sifín an anró (“‘weather-straw’, eaves of thatch”)

Related terms

• anróiteach (“severe, inclement; distressing”, adjective)
• anróiteacht (“severity, inclemency (of weather); wretchedness”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
anró	n-anró	hanró	t-anró
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “anró”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “hardship”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024