crá croí

Irish

Alternative forms

  • crádh croidhe (obsolete)

Etymology

Literally, “anguish of a heart”.

Noun

crá croí m (genitive singular crá chroí)

  1. heartbreak, heartache
    Synonyms: briseadh croí, croíbhriseadh
  2. nuisance (minor annoyance or inconvenience; person or thing causing annoyance of inconvenience)
  3. pain, torment (suffering or anguish, especially mental)
  4. nuisance, pain, pest, vexation (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience)
    Synonym: pian sa tóin

Mutation

Mutated forms of crá croí
radical lenition eclipsis
crá croí chrá croí gcrá croí

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

Further reading

  • “crá”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “cráḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 255; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “crá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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