crou

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Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish cruë (“hoof”), cognate with Irish crú and Scottish Gaelic crudha.

Pronunciation

Noun

crou f (genitive singular crou, plural crouyn or croughyn)

  1. a horseshoe
  2. the iron band on the felloe of a wheel

Usage notes

Cregeen notes that the plural crouyn is used with meaning 1 and croughyn with meaning 2.

Mutation

Mutation of crou
radical lenition eclipsis
crou chrou grou

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cruë”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Archibald Cregeen, (1835). A dictionary of the Manks language. p. 50
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