crenaid

Old Irish

Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *kʷrinati, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷrinéh₂ti, nasal present stem of *kʷreyh₂- (“to buy”).

Cognate with Middle Cornish prena, Breton prenañ, Welsh prynu, Ancient Greek ἐπριάμην (epriámēn), Sanskrit क्रीणाति (krīṇāti) (root क्री (krī)), Old East Slavic кренути (krenuti), Tocharian B käry-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʲrʲeniðʲ/

Verb

crenaid (conjunct ·cren, verbal noun críth or creicc)

1. to buy, purchase

Conjugation

Simple, class B IV present, reduplicated preterite, reduplicated future, a subjunctive

		1st sg.	2nd sg.	3rd sg.	1st pl.	2nd pl.	3rd pl.	Passive sg.	Passive pl.
Present indicative	Abs.			crenaid
	Conj.	·crenaim		·cren			·crenat	·crenar
	Rel.			crenas				crenar
Imperfect indicative				·crenad
Preterite	Abs.
	Conj.	·cér		·ciúir				·críth
	Rel.
Perfect	Deut.
	Prot.
Future	Abs.
	Conj.	·ciúr		·cicher
	Rel.
Conditional
Present subjunctive	Abs.
	Conj.		·crie	·cria				·crether
	Rel.
Past subjunctive			·cretha	·criad
Imperative			cren	criad				crenar
Verbal noun
Past participle
Verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• fo·cren

Descendants

• Irish: crean

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
crenaid	chrenaid	crenaid pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “crenaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language