crá

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See also: cra, CRA, and crâ

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish crád.[2] Perhaps related to Old Irish tacráth (verbal noun of do·accrádi (“to provoke”)) and acraidecht (“legal action for recovery of payment”).[3] Possibly from Proto-Celtic *krādos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“to break”).[4]

Pronunciation

Noun

crá m (genitive singular as substantive crá, genitive as verbal noun cráite)

  1. verbal noun of cráigh
  2. anguish, torment, pain, torture
    Synonyms: pianpháis, céasadh, ciapadh
  3. distress ((cause of) discomfort), misery
    Synonym: angar
  4. destruction

Declension

As substantive:

Declension of crá (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative crá
vocative a chrá
genitive crá
dative crá
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an crá
genitive an chrá
dative leis an gcrá
don chrá

As verbal noun:

Declension of crá (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative crá
vocative a chrá
genitive cráite
dative crá
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an crá
genitive an chráite
dative leis an gcrá
don chrá

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of crá
radical lenition eclipsis
crá chrá gcrá

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

References

  1. ^ “crá”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “crád”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Vendryes, Joseph (1987) “crád”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume C, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page C-221
  4. ^ Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 79
  5. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 121, page 65
  6. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 145, page 57

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