cri

• IPA^(key): /kʁi/ or /kχi/

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• Homophones: crie, cries, crient, cris

Inherited from Middle French cri, from Old French cri, a deverbal derived from crier (“to cry”). Compare English cry.

cri m (plural cris)

1. cry; shout; scream

   Tu entends le cri du loup?

   Can you hear the wolf's cry?

• criard
• crier

Clipping of Christenaux (now Knistenaux), from Cree Kenisteniwuik (the name of a Cree village).

cri m (uncountable)

1. Cree (language)

cri (feminine crie, masculine plural cris, feminine plural cries)

1. (relational) Cree

• “cri”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• RCI

cri

1. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular preterite indicative of crer

cri

1. alternative form of cry

cri

1. alternative form of crien

• cry

Inherited from Old French cri.

cri m (plural cris or criz)

1. cry; shout

• crier, cryer

• French: cri

From crier (“to cry”).

cri oblique singular, m (oblique plural cris, nominative singular cris, nominative plural cri)

1. cry; shout

• crier

• Middle French: cri, cry
  • French: cri
• → Middle English: cry, cri, crie, crye, kri, krie, kry
  • English: cry
  • Scots: cry
  • Yola: crie, cry

Onomatopoeic.

• cri cri, cri cri cri

cri

1. represents the chirp of a cricket

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

cri

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of crer

Onomatopoeic.

cri

1. chirrup (sound made by crickets)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkriː/

cri (feminine singular cri, plural cri, equative crïed, comparative crïach, superlative crïaf)

1. unleavened
2. raw

   Synonyms: crai, croyw, amrwd

3. coarse, crude

   Synonyms: bras, garw, cwrs

4. fresh, new

   Synonyms: ffres, ir, newydd

• cacen gri, teisen gri (“Welsh cake”)

From Middle Welsh cri, from Middle English cry.

cri m or f (plural crïau)

1. cry, wail

   Synonyms: wylofain, cwyn

• crio

• D. G. Lewis, N. Lewis, editors (2005–present), “cri”, in Gweiadur: the Welsh–English Dictionary, Gwerin
• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “cri”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies