crodh

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish crod (“cattle, herds, stock; goods, property, wealth”).

Pronunciation

Noun

crodh m (genitive singular croidh, nominative plural croidh)

  1. (literary) cattle, wealth (in cattle)
    Synonym: eallach
  2. dowry
    Synonym: spré

Declension

Declension of crodh

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative crodh croidh
Vocative a chroidh a chrodha
Genitive croidh crodh
Dative crodh croidh

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an crodh na croidh
Genitive an chroidh na gcrodh
Dative leis an gcrodh

don chrodh

leis na croidh

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
crodh chrodh gcrodh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 202, page 77

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish crod (“cattle, herds, stock; goods, property, wealth”).

Pronunciation

Noun

crodh m (genitive singular cruidh, no plural)

  1. cattle

Derived terms

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
crodh chrodh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  2. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
  3. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap

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