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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish croinic (“chronicle; history”), from Latin chronica, from Ancient Greek χρονικός (khronikós, “of or concerning time”), from χρόνος (khrónos, “time”).
Noun
croinic f (genitive singular croinice, nominative plural croinicí)
- chronicle
- Synonyms: cuntas, leabhar oiris
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| croinic
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chroinic
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gcroinic
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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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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “croinic”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “chronicle”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “croinic”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language