crá

See also: cra, CRA, and crâ

Irish

Alternative forms

• crádh (superseded)

Etymology

From Middle Irish crád, perhaps related to Old Irish tacráth, a borrowing from Latin acritas (“sharpness, pungency”), but this doesn't account for the -á-. Possibly instead from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /kɾˠɑː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /kɾˠaː/

Noun

crá m (genitive singular as substantive crá, genitive as verbal noun cráite)

1. verbal noun of cráigh
2. anguish, torment, pain, torture

   Synonyms: pianpháis, céasadh, ciapadh

3. distress ((cause of) discomfort), misery

   Synonym: angar

4. destruction

Declension

As substantive:

Declension of crá

Fourth declension

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

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an crá Genitive an chrá Dative leis an gcrá don chrá

As verbal noun:

Declension of crá

Third declension

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

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an crá Genitive an chráite Dative leis an gcrá don chrá

Derived terms

• crá croí

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
crá	chrá	gcrá
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• “crá”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, 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