crá
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish crád. Perhaps related to Old Irish tacráth (verbal noun of do·accrádi (“to provoke”)) and acraidecht (“legal action for recovery of payment”).[1] Possibly from Proto-Celtic *krādos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“to break”).[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]crá m (genitive singular as substantive crá, genitive as verbal noun cráite)
- verbal noun of cráigh
- anguish, torment, pain, torture
- distress ((cause of) discomfort), misery
- Synonym: angar
- destruction
Declension
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Declension of crá
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Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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As verbal noun:
Declension of crá
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Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| crá | chrá | gcrá |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
[edit]- ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1987) “crád”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume C, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page C-221
- ^ Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 79
Further reading
[edit]- “crá”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “crád”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cráḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 187
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “crá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 57
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 65
