creig

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Irish

Alternative forms

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.[1] Alternatively, the Old Irish is from Proto-Celtic *karrikā, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂er- (“hard”) (compare Manx carrick, Welsh carreg).

Pronunciation

Noun

creig f (genitive singular creige, nominative plural creaga)

  1. crag, rock

Declension

Declension of creig (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative creig creaga
vocative a chreig a chreaga
genitive creige creaga
dative creig creaga
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an chreig na creaga
genitive na creige na gcreaga
dative leis an gcreig
don chreig 		leis na creaga

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of creig
radical lenition eclipsis
creig chreig gcreig

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

References

  1. ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “carraig”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN

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