cró

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See also: cro and CRO

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish cró, from Proto-Celtic *krawos (“enclosure”). Cognate with Breton krao (“eye of a needle”), kraou (“stable”), Welsh crau (“hole; eye socket; sty”), Cornish krow (“hut, shed, sty”). From Proto-Indo-European *krewH- (“to cover”), compare Old English hrēodan (“to cover”), Old Church Slavonic крꙑти (kryti, “to hide”).

Noun

cró m (genitive singular cró, nominative plural cróite)

  1. eye, socket
  2. bore
  3. (photography) aperture
  4. ring
  5. enclosure; fold, pen
  6. (small) outbuilding
  7. mean dwelling, hovel
  8. hollow; (topography) hollow, hole
Declension
Declension of cró

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cró cróite
Vocative a chró a chróite
Genitive cró cróite
Dative cró cróite

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an cró na cróite
Genitive an chró na gcróite
Dative leis an gcró

don chró

leis na cróite
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish crú (“blood”), from Proto-Celtic *krowos, from Proto-Indo-European *kréwh₂s.

Noun

cró m (genitive singular cró)

  1. blood, gore
Declension
Declension of cró

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative cró
Vocative a chró
Genitive cró
Dative cró

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an cró
Genitive an chró
Dative leis an gcró

don chró

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 170
  2. ^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*kreu̯H-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 371

Further reading

  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cró”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cró”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 196
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cró”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 197
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 cró”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “3 cró”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  • Entries containing “cró” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “cró” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “crau2”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
  • MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “cró”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN, page 108
  • Matasović, Ranko (2011 December) “Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)”, in Homepage of Ranko Matasović‎, Zagreb, page 23

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cró chró gcró
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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