crág
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the variant cròg, itself related to crobh (“paw”).[1]
Noun
[edit]crág f (genitive singular cráige, nominative plural crága)
- large hand; claw, paw
- handful
- Synonyms: lán glaice, lán láimhe
- (mechanical engineering) clutch
- (biology) chela
- (rugby) maul
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- crág bhíomail (“brace-chuck”)
- crág chuimilte (“friction clutch”)
- crág dhiosca (“disk clutch”)
- crág- (“cheli-”)
- crágach (“having large hands; chelate; chelating”, adjective)
- crágachán, crágaire (“clawer, pawer; awkward walker”)
- crágaí (“person with large hands”)
- crágáil (“claw, paw; handle roughly or unskilfully; walk awkwardly; toil along”)
- crágán (“(little) claw; chuck”)
- crágchoimpléacs (“chelate complex”)
- crágdhruilire (“ratchet-drill”)
Verb
[edit]crág (present analytic crágann, future analytic crágfaidh, verbal noun crágadh, past participle crágtha)
Conjugation
[edit]† archaic or dialect form
‡ dependent form
Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | eclipsis |
|---|---|---|
| crág | chrág | gcrág |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “cròg”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “crág”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “crág”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “crág”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “crág”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026