criathar

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish críathar,[1] from Proto-Celtic *kreitros (whence also Welsh crwydr), from Proto-Indo-European *krey-trom.

Pronunciation

Noun

criathar m (genitive singular criathair or créithir, nominative plural criathair or créithre)

  1. sieve, riddle (sieve with coarse meshes), screen (material woven from fine wires)
    Synonyms: síothlán, rilleán
  2. sifter (tool for sifting)
    Synonym: scagaire

Declension

Standard declension:

Alternative declension:

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
criathar chriathar gcriathar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “críathar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 203, page 102
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 46

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