creicc

Old Irish

Etymology

Created due to contamination with ícc (“payment”). It displaced críth.[1]

Noun

creicc f (genitive crecce)

  1. verbal noun of crenaid: purchase, buying

Inflection

  • Genitive singular: crecce
  • Dative singular: creicc

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: creicc
    • Irish: creic
    • Scottish Gaelic: creic
    • Manx: creck

Mutation

Mutation of creicc
radical lenition nasalization
creicc chreicc creicc
pronounced with /ɡʲ-/

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

References

  1. ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909] D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 737; reprinted 2017

Further reading

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