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Irish
Pronunciation
Noun
croithleog f (genitive singular croithleoige, nominative plural croithleoga)
- ear (of grain, especially barley)
- Synonym: dias
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| croithleog
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chroithleog
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gcroithleog
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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
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “croiṫleog”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Entries containing “croithleog” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “croithleog”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 85