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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Irish crétúir (compare Manx cretoor), from Latin creātūra (“created thing; creature”).
Pronunciation
Noun
créatúr m (genitive singular créatúir, nominative plural créatúir)
- creature, created thing
- (in expressions of sympathy) poor creature, poor thing
- (contemptuously) (good for nothing) creature
Declension
Mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| créatúr
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chréatúr
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gcréatúr
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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) “créatúr”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “creature”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “crétúir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language