cruth

English

Noun

cruth (plural cruths)

1. Alternative form of crwth

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cruth”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cruth (“form, shape, appearance; beauty of form, shapeliness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɾˠʊ(h)/

Noun

cruth m (genitive singular crutha, nominative plural cruthanna)

1. shape, appearance
2. state, condition
3. manner, mode

Declension

Declension of cruth

Third declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative cruth cruthanna Vocative a chruth a chruthanna Genitive crutha cruthanna Dative cruth cruthanna

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an cruth na cruthanna Genitive an chrutha na gcruthanna Dative leis an gcruth don chruth leis na cruthanna

Derived terms

• anchruth
• athchruth
• beathachruth
• buanchruth
• -chruthach
• comhchruthach
• creatchruth
• cruthach
• cruthaigh
• cruthlíne
• cruthúil
• dea-chruthach
• droch-chruthach
• ilchruthach
• ilchruthacht
• imchruth
• leabhairchruth
• míchruthach
• scáthchruth
• tonnchruth
• ubhchruth

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cruth	chruth	gcruth
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cruth”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cruth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish cruth (“form, shape, appearance; beauty of form, shapeliness”).

Noun

cruth m (genitive singular crutha, plural cruthan or cruthannan)

1. shape, form

   Synonym: cumadh

Derived terms

• cruth-clò (“font”)
• cruth-tìre (“landscape”)

 

Mutation

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

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “cruth”, 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), “1 cruth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language