Irish
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)
- verbal noun of cráigh
- anguish, torment, pain, torture
- Synonyms: pianpháis, céasadh, ciapadh
- distress ((cause of) discomfort), misery
- Synonym: angar
- destruction
Declension
As substantive:
Declension of crá (fourth declension, no plural)
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As verbal noun:
Declension of crá (third declension, no plural)
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Derived terms
Mutation
Mutated forms of crá
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lenition
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eclipsis
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chrá
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gcrá
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ “crá”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “crád”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ 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
- ^ Zair, Nicholas (2012), The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 79
- ^ 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
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 145, page 57
Further reading
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “cráḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 187
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “crá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
