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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish cráin.
Pronunciation
Noun
cráin f (genitive singular cránach, nominative plural cránacha)
- sow
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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cráin
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chráin
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gcráin
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cráin”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cráin”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cráin”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “cráin”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024