cruáil

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From crua (“hard”) +‎ dáil (“conditions”).[2]

Noun

cruáil f (genitive singular cruála)

  1. cruelty
  2. hardship, adversity
  3. stinginess

Declension

Declension of cruáil (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative cruáil
vocative a chruáil
genitive cruála
dative cruáil
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an chruáil
genitive na cruála
dative leis an gcruáil
don chruáil

Synonyms

Mutation

Mutated forms of cruáil
radical lenition eclipsis
cruáil chruáil gcruáil

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

References

  1. ^ “cruáil”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “crúadáil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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