craos

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cráes (“maw, mouth, gullet; gluttony, excessive eating”), possibly related to crosán (“jester, satirist, reciter”, literally “cross-bearer”), which was borrowed into Welsh croesan.[1] Or, from Proto-Celtic *kraɸestus, a late borrowing from Latin crapula (“drunkenness”) and Ancient Greek κραιπάλη (kraipálē, “hangover”).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

craos m (genitive singular craois, nominative plural craois)

  1. gullet; maw
  2. deep opening, (geology) vent
  3. breech (of gun)
  4. gluttony, voracity

Declension

Declension of craos

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative craos craois
Vocative a chraois a chraosa
Genitive craois craos
Dative craos craois

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an craos na craois
Genitive an chraois na gcraos
Dative leis an gcraos

don chraos

leis na craois

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
craos chraos gcraos
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “croesan”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
  2. ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “craos”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish cráes (“maw, mouth, gullet; gluttony, excessive eating”), possibly related to crosán (“jester, satirist, reciter”, literally “cross-bearer”), which was borrowed into Welsh croesan.[1] Or, from Proto-Celtic *kraɸestus, a late borrowing from Latin crapula (“drunkenness”) and Ancient Greek κραιπάλη (kraipálē, “hangover”).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

craos m (genitive singular craois, plural craosan)

  1. mouth (animal)
  2. (derogatory) mouth (human); maw, gob
  3. gluttony

Derived terms

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
craos chraos
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “croesan”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
  2. ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “craos”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN

Further reading

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