Irish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Irish cró,[2] from Proto-Celtic *kruwos, *kruwyos (“enclosure”).[3] Cognate with Breton krao (“eye of a needle”), kraou (“stable”), Welsh crau (“hole; eye socket; sty”),[4] Cornish krow (“hut, shed, sty”). From Proto-Indo-European *krewH- (“to cover”), compare Old English hrēodan (“to cover”), Old Church Slavonic крꙑти (kryti, “to hide”).[5][6]
Noun
cró m (genitive singular cró, nominative plural cróite)
- eye, socket
- bore
- (photography) aperture
- ring
- enclosure; fold, pen
- (small) outbuilding
- mean dwelling, hovel
- hollow; (topography) hollow, hole
Declension
Declension of cró (fourth declension)
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Derived terms
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “cró”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “cró ‘socket’”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 196
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “aperture”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “bore”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “pen”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “aperture”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026
- “bore”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026
- “pen”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026
Etymology 2
From Old Irish crú (“blood”),[7][8] from Proto-Celtic *krowos, from Proto-Indo-European *kréwh₂s.
Noun
cró m (genitive singular cró)
- blood, gore
Declension
Declension of cró (fourth declension, no plural)
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Derived terms
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “cró”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “cró ‘gore’”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 197
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “gore”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “gore”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026
Etymology 3
From English crow (“iron bar”).
Noun
cró m (genitive singular cró, nominative plural cróite)
- alternative form of gró (“crowbar, crow (iron bar)”)
Declension
Declension of cró (fourth declension)
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Mutation
Mutated forms of cró
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lenition
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eclipsis
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chró
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gcró
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
References
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 222
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cró”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (December 2011), “Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)”, in Homepage of Ranko Matasović[1], Zagreb, page 23
- ^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “crau”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
- ^ Zair, Nicholas (2012), The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 170
- ^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*kreu̯H-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 371
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 crú”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 cró”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
