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Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *krokkenom (“skin”), probably loaned from a non-Indo-European substrate language.[1] However, compare Proto-Germanic *hrugjaz (“ridge, back, spine”) and German Krug.[2]
Cognate with Breton kroc'hen, Cornish kroghen; Welsh croen (< *kroknom).
Pronunciation
Noun
crocenn n (genitive crocainn)
- skin, hide
- bark
- (of nuts) husk
Inflection
Although neuter gender is not declared by DIL, it can be deduced from the following evidence:
- The nominative plural appears in Middle Irish as croicni (and also as masculine o-stem croicind). Such o-stem declension with a nominative plural ending with a vowel can only reflect a neuter o-stem, which had alternative nominative plurals in -(e)a in Old Irish; Middle Irish merged all final vowels to schwa, resulting in various interchangeable and non-etymological spellings of endings pronounced with schwa.
| Neuter o-stem
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Singular
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Dual
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Plural
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| Nominative
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crocennN
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crocennN
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crocennL, croicneaL
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| Vocative
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crocennN
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crocennN
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crocennL, croicneaL
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| Accusative
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crocennN
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crocennN
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crocennL, croicneaL
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| Genitive
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crocainnL
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crocenn
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crocennN
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| Dative
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crocunnL
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croicnib
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croicnib
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
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Descendants
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
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| crocenn
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chrocenn
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crocenn
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
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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
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “krok(ke)no-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 226
- ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “crocenn”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page craicionn