cruas

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish crúas (“hardness, stiffness, rigour”), from crúaid (“hard, hardy, harsh; stern, strict”) (compare modern crua).

Noun

cruas m (genitive singular cruais)

1. hardness
2. stinginess

Declension

Declension of cruas

First declension

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

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an cruas Genitive an chruais Dative leis an gcruas don chruas

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cruas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “crúas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Portuguese

Adjective

cruas

1. (deprecated template usage) Feminine plural of adjective cru.

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish crúas (“hardness, stiffness, rigour”), from crúaid (“hard, hardy, harsh; stern, strict”) (compare modern cruaidh).

Noun

cruas m (genitive singular cruais, no plural)

1. difficulty, hardship, crisis, severity, durability, distress, rigour
2. illiberality, stinginess

Synonyms

• (illiberality): mì-shuairceas, neo-fhialaidheachd, neo-fhlathaileachd, neo-uaisle

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
cruas	chruas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “cruas”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “crúas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language