cró

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See also: cro and CRO

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish cró,[1] from Proto-Celtic *kruwos, *kruwyos (“enclosure”).[2] Cognate with Breton krao (“eye of a needle”), kraou (“stable”), Welsh crau (“hole; eye socket; sty”),[3] Cornish krow (“hut, shed, sty”). From Proto-Indo-European *krewH- (“to cover”), compare Old English hrēodan (“to cover”), Old Church Slavonic крꙑти (kryti, “to hide”).[4][5]

Noun

cró m (genitive singular cró, nominative plural cróite)

  1. eye, socket
  2. bore
  3. (photography) aperture
  4. ring
  5. enclosure; fold, pen
  6. (small) outbuilding
  7. mean dwelling, hovel
  8. hollow; (topography) hollow, hole
Declension
Declension of cró (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative cró cróite
vocative a chró a chróite
genitive cró cróite
dative cró cróite
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an cró na cróite
genitive an chró na gcróite
dative leis an gcró
don chró 		leis na cróite
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish crú (“blood”),[6][7] from Proto-Celtic *krowos, from Proto-Indo-European *kréwh₂s.

Noun

cró m (genitive singular cró)

  1. blood, gore
Declension
Declension of cró (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative cró
vocative a chró
genitive cró
dative cró
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an cró
genitive an chró
dative leis an gcró
don chró
Derived terms

Etymology 3

From English crow (“iron bar”).

Noun

cró m (genitive singular cró, nominative plural cróite)

  1. Alternative form of gró (“crowbar, crow (iron bar)”)
Declension
Declension of cró (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative cró cróite
vocative a chró a chróite
genitive cró cróite
dative cró cróite
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an cró na cróite
genitive an chró na gcróite
dative leis an gcró
don chró 		leis na cróite

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cró”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2011 December) “Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)”, in Homepage of Ranko Matasović‎, Zagreb, page 23
  3. ^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “crau”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
  4. ^ Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 170
  5. ^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*kreu̯H-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 371
  6. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 crú”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  7. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 cró”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

Mutation

Mutated forms of cró
radical lenition eclipsis
cró chró gcró

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

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