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Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle English croke or Old Norse krókr, both from Proto-Germanic *krōkaz.
Pronunciation
Noun
crúca m (genitive singular crúca, nominative plural crúcaí)
- hook, crook
- (music) hook
- clutch (a hand or claw, when it is grasping something firmly), claw (usually figurative)
- (familiar) paw, hand
Declension
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Mutation
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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crúca
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chrúca
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gcrúca
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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) “crúca”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “crúca”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “crúca”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024