cráigh

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish cráidid, from Old Irish *cráidid (whence do·accrádi (to provoke, exasperate)). A denominal verb derived from its verbal noun (modern Irish crá). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic cràidh.

Pronunciation

Verb

cráigh (present analytic cránn, future analytic cráfaidh, verbal noun crá, past participle cráite)

  1. (transitive) to torment, annoy
    Synonyms: céas, ciap
    Ná bí do mo chrá.
    Don’t annoy me.
    an bhean a chráigh mo chroíthe woman who has troubled my heart; the woman who broke my heart

Conjugation

Mutation

Mutated forms of cráigh
radical lenition eclipsis
cráigh chráigh gcráigh

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

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 145, page 57

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