crág

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See also: crag and crág-

Irish

Etymology

From the variant cròg, itself related to crobh (paw).

Noun

crág f (genitive singular cráige, nominative plural crága)

  1. large hand; claw, paw
  2. handful
    Synonyms: lán glaice, lán láimhe
  3. (mechanical engineering) clutch
  4. (biology) chela
  5. (rugby) maul

Declension

Derived terms

Verb

crág (present analytic crágann, future analytic crágfaidh, verbal noun crágadh, past participle crágtha)

  1. (chemistry, intransitive) chelate

Conjugation

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
crág chrág gcrág
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “cròg”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN

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