cráigh

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish cráidid, from Old Irish *cráidid (whence do·accrádi (to provoke, exasperate)). A denominative verb derived from its verbal noun (Modern Irish crá). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic cràidh.

Pronunciation

Verb

cráigh (present analytic cránn, future analytic cráfaidh, verbal noun crá, past participle cráite)

  1. (transitive) agonize, torment, annoy; trouble, distress, grieve
    Synonyms: céas, ciap
    Ná bí do mo chrá.Don’t annoy me.
    an bhean a chráigh mo chroíthe woman who has troubled my heart; the woman who broke my heart

Conjugation

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cráigh chráigh gcráigh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 145, page 57

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