crúca

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle English croke or Old Norse krókr, both from Proto-Germanic *krōkaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɾˠuːkə/

Noun

crúca m (genitive singular crúca, nominative plural crúcaí)

  1. hook, crook
  2. (music) hook
  3. clutch (a hand or claw, when it is grasping something firmly), claw (usually figurative)
  4. (familiar) paw, hand

Declension

Declension of crúca (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative crúca crúcaí
vocative a chrúca a chrúcaí
genitive crúca crúcaí
dative crúca crúcaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an crúca na crúcaí
genitive an chrúca na gcrúcaí
dative leis an gcrúca
don chrúca 		leis na crúcaí

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of crúca
radical lenition eclipsis
crúca chrúca gcrúca

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

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