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Irish
Pronunciation
Noun
creag f (genitive singular creige, nominative plural creaga)
- Alternative form of creig
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| creag
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chreag
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gcreag
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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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References
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Middle Irish crec, a contracted form of Old Irish carrac, from Proto-Celtic *karsekki, from Proto-Indo-European *kars- (“to scrape roughly”), similar to English harsh.
Alternatively, the Old Irish is from Proto-Celtic *karrikā, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂er- (“hard”) (compare Manx carrick, Welsh carreg).
Pronunciation
Noun
creag f (dative singular creag or creig, genitive singular creige, plural creagan)
- rock, crag
- cliff
- precipice
- quarry
- hill
Synonyms
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| creag |
chreag
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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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References
- ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “carraig”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN
Further reading
- Dravidian Origins and the West: Newly Discovered Ties with the Ancient Culture and Languages, Including Basque, of the Pre-Indo-European Mediterranean World, p. 325
- Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition
- Scigliano, Eric (2007): Michelangelo's Mountain: The Quest For Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara, p. 84