crobh

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish crob, from Proto-Celtic *kruwos (“hoof”), itself related to *karwos (“stag”).

Noun

crobh m (genitive singular croibh, nominative plural croibh) or
crobh f (genitive singular croibhe, nominative plural crobha)

  1. hand; clawed foot, paw; talons

Declension

As a masculine first-declension noun:

Declension of crobh (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative crobh croibh
vocative a chroibh a chrobha
genitive croibh crobh
dative crobh croibh
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an crobh na croibh
genitive an chroibh na gcrobh
dative leis an gcrobh
don chrobh 		leis na croibh

As a feminine second-declension noun:

Declension of crobh (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative crobh crobha
vocative a chrobh a chrobha
genitive croibhe crobh
dative crobh
croibh (archaic, dialectal) 		crobha
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an chrobh na crobha
genitive na croibhe na gcrobh
dative leis an gcrobh
leis an gcroibh (archaic, dialectal)
don chrobh
don chroibh (archaic, dialectal) 		leis na crobha

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of crobh
radical lenition eclipsis
crobh chrobh gcrobh

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

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