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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Literally, “fire of (the) girdle”. Dinneen and Ó Dónaill treat the chreasa of this term as distinct from the genitive of crios (“belt, girdle”), but DIL suggests either “fire carried in the girdle” or “fire obtained by circular friction” as the literal meaning.
Pronunciation
Noun
tine chreasa f (genitive singular tine creasa, nominative plural tinte creasa)
- spark from flint or another stone
- the fire arising from such a spark
Bhain cruite na gcapall tine chreasa as na clocha.- The horses’ hooves struck fire from the stones.
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References
- ^ “teine chreas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ “teine chreasa”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ “teine creasa”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ “teinte creasa”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “creas”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 193
- ^ Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “creasa”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 teine”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 100
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