craiceann

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish croiccenn.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

craiceann m (genitive singular craicinn, nominative plural craicne)

  1. skin (outer covering of the body of a person, animal, vegetable, or fruit); rind (of cheese, etc.)
    Synonym: cneas
  2. surface
  3. finish, polish

Declension

Declension of craiceann

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative craiceann craicne
Vocative a chraicinn a chraicne
Genitive craicinn craicne
Dative craiceann craicne

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an craiceann na craicne
Genitive an chraicinn na gcraicne
Dative leis an gcraiceann

don chraiceann

leis na craicne

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
craiceann chraiceann gcraiceann
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “croiceann”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 198
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “croiccenn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 71
  4. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 163
  5. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 32

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish croiccenn.

Noun

craiceann m (genitive singular craicinn or craicne, plural craicnean)

  1. skin
  2. hide
    Synonym: seiche

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of craiceann
radical lenition
craiceann chraiceann

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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