cróa

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Old Irish

cróa (“horse hoof or shoe”)

Etymology

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Noun

cróa m

  1. hoof
    • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 46b13
      cróa ― glosses Latin ungula (“hoof”)
  2. horseshoe
    • Sechtae, published in Ancient Laws of Ireland: Uraicecht Becc and Certain Other Selected Brehon Law Tracts (1901, Dublin: Stationery Office), edited and with translations by W. Neilson Hancock, Thaddeus O'Mahony, Alexander George Richey, and Robert Atkinson, vol. 5, pp. 117-373, page 156
      Atait secht n-aithsceanmanda feardu [sic; leg. At·taat secht n-aithscenmann fertae] fuil la Feine, na·tuillit fíachu na othrus... aithsceinm a cruib [e]ach, [...]
      There are seven reboundings that shed blood among the Irish that do not incur debts nor medical expense ... the rebounding of horses' horseshoes...

Inflection

Masculine io-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative crue, cróa crueL, cróa cruiL
Vocative crui crueL, cróa cruu
Accusative crueN, cróa crueL, cróa cruuH
Genitive cruiL crueL, cróa crueN, cróa
Dative cruuL cruib cruib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: crua
    • Irish: crú (“animal shoe”)
    • Scottish Gaelic: crudha
    • Manx: crou (“animal shoe, tyre”)

Mutation

Mutation of cróa
radical lenition nasalization
cróa chróa cróa
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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