creagh
English
Noun
creagh (plural creaghs)
- Alternative form of creach.
Verb
creagh (third-person singular simple present creaghs, present participle creaghing, simple past and past participle creaghed)
- Alternative form of creach.
Manx
Etymology 1
From Middle Irish crúach, from Old Irish crúach (“stack; mountain, hill”),[1] from Proto-Celtic *krouk- (“heap”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *krewH- (“to heap up”), shared with Proto-Germanic *hraukaz (“heap”), Lithuanian kruvà (“heap”).[2][3] Compare Irish cruach and Scottish Gaelic cruach.
Pronunciation
Noun
creagh f (genitive singular creagh, plural creaghyn)
- stack
- Synonym: tooran
Etymology 2
From Middle Irish crích, from Old Irish crích (“boundary, limit, end”), compare Scottish Gaelic crìoch and Irish críoch.
Pronunciation
Noun
creagh f (genitive singular creagh, plural creaghyn)
- furrow, a trench made in the ground by a plough for planting
Mutation
| radical | lenition | eclipsis |
|---|---|---|
| creagh | chreagh | greagh |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 crúach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009), “krowko-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 226-27
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 616
- ^ Christopher Lewin (forthcoming), Sheean as Screeu, St John's: Culture Vannin, page 74
- ^ Christopher Lewin (forthcoming), Sheean as Screeu, St John's: Culture Vannin, page 75