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Pronunciation
Adjective
crua
- feminine singular of cru
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish crúaid (“hard, hardy, harsh; stern, strict”), from Proto-Celtic *kroudis, from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂-.
Pronunciation
Adjective
crua (comparative crua or cruacha)
- hard, firm
- difficult
- severe
Declension
Declension of crua
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singular
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plural (m/f)
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Positive
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masculine
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feminine
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(strong noun)
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(weak noun)
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nominative
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crua
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chrua
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crua; chrua2
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vocative
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chrua
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crua
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genitive
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crua
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crua
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crua
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dative
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crua; chrua1
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chrua
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crua; chrua2
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Comparative
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níos crua
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Superlative
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is crua
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1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
- Alternative comparative form: cruacha (Cois Fharraige)
Derived terms
Noun
crua f (genitive singular crua)
- hardness
Declension
Noun
crua m (genitive singular cruaite)
- Alternative form of cruachan (“hardening”)
Declension
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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crua
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chrua
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gcrua
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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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References
Further reading
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cruaiḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 202
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “crua”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “crúaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Old Galician-Portuguese
Etymology
Inherited from Latin crūdam.
Pronunciation
Adjective
crua
- feminine singular of cruu
Descendants
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -uɐ
- Hyphenation: cru‧a
Adjective
crua
- feminine singular of cru
Venetan
Adjective
crua f sg
- feminine singular of cruo