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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Irish crotball.
Pronunciation
Noun
crotal m (genitive singular crotail, nominative plural crotail)
- husk, hull (outer covering of a fruit or seed)
- dyer's moss (Roccella tinctoria)
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| crotal
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chrotal
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gcrotal
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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
- “crotal”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “crottball”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “crotal”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 200
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “crotal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French crotale.
Noun
crotal m (plural crotali)
- crotal bell
- crotale (snake)
Declension