cró
Irish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Irish cró, from Proto-Celtic *krawos (“enclosure”). Cognate with Breton krao (“eye of a needle”), kraou (“stable”), Welsh crau (“hole; eye socket; sty”), 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”).[1][2]
Noun
cró m (genitive singular cró, nominative plural cróite)
- eye, socket
- bore
- (photography) aperture
- ring
- enclosure; fold, pen
- (small) outbuilding
- mean dwelling, hovel
- hollow; (topography) hollow, hole
Declension
Declension of cró
Derived terms
- bolta cró
- cró an chinn
- cró beaignite
- cró béar
- cró beithíoch
- cró bíomail
- cró bolgáin
- cró bolta
- cró catha
- cró cearc
- Cró Choinn
- cró Chríost
- cró coinín
- cró coinnleora
- cró comhla
- cró cúltreorach
- cró dornálaíochta
- cró folaigh
- cró gunna
- cró lampa
- cró madra
- cró meáite
- cró muc
- cró muice
- cró na baithise
- cró pacála
- cró pinn
- cró píopa
- cró ribeach
- cró scuaibe
- cró sleá
- cró sluaiste
- cró snáthaide
- cró sorcais
- cró stile
- cró tarbhchomhraic
- cró troda
- cró uimhriúil
- crúca is cró
- tomhas cró
Etymology 2
From Old Irish crú (“blood”), from Proto-Celtic *krowos, from Proto-Indo-European *kréwh₂s.
Noun
cró m (genitive singular cró)
Declension
Declension of cró
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
- cosair chró (“shambles”)
References
- ^ Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 170
- ^ 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
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cró”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cró”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 196
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cró”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 197
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cró”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 cró”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cró”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “cró”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “crau2”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “cró”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN, page 108
- Matasović, Ranko (2011 December) “Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)”, in Homepage of Ranko Matasović[2], Zagreb, page 23
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
cró | chró | gcró |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Categories:
- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish masculine nouns
- ga:Photography
- Irish fourth-declension nouns
- Irish terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- ga:Buildings
- ga:Violence