croch

• IPA^(key): /kɾˠox/^[1][2], /kɾˠɔx/^[3], /kɾˠɞx/, /kɾˠɔ(h)/^[4]

From Old Irish croch, from Latin crux (“cross”).^[5] Doublet of cros.

croch f (genitive singular croiche, nominative plural crocha or crochanna)

1. cross, gallows
2. hook

Alternative plural form: crochanna

From Old Irish crochaid, from the noun croch (“cross”).^[6]

croch (present analytic crochann, future analytic crochfaidh, verbal noun crochadh, past participle crochta) (ambitransitive)

1. to hang
2. to raise, lift
3. (reflexive) to clear off [with le] (leave abruptly)

   Chroch mé liom i ndiaidh an chluiche.

   I cleared off after the game.

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “croċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 267; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “croċaim”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 267; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “croch”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “croch”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “croch”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

croch

1. alternative form of crucche

From Insular Proto-Celtic *krukā (compare Welsh crog), borrowed from the oblique stem of Latin crux. Doublet of cros, which was instead formed by attaching feminine ā-stem inflectional endings directly onto the nominative singular.

• IPA^(key): /krox/

croch f

1. cross
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 20^c21

     Is dó da·gníat: maith leu indocbál apstal doib et ní fodmat ingreimm ar chroich Críst.

     It is for this they do it: they like to have the glory of apostles, and they do not endure persecution for the cross of Christ.

2. gallows

• crochaid

• Irish: croch
• Scottish Gaelic: croch

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “croch”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Old Irish crochaid, from the noun croch (“cross”). Doublet of crois.

• IPA^(key): /kʰɾɔx/

croch (past chroch, future crochaidh, verbal noun crochadh, past participle crochte)

1. to hang, suspend
2. to depend

• It is more usual to use bi an crochadh for depend.

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “croch”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[2], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 crochaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Proto-Indo-European *k(V)r-, related to several other Indo-European words such as Latin crocio, Lithuanian kriõkti (“to rattle, grunt”), Sanskrit कृकर (kṛkara, “partridge”), Ancient Greek κρώζω (krṓzō). See also crawcian (“to croak, to caw”).

croch (feminine singular croch, plural croch, equative croched, comparative crochach, superlative crochaf)

1. loud, cacophonous, clamorous

   Synonyms: aflafar, amhersain, cegog

2. strident, vociferous, fierce

   Synonyms: ffyrnig, brochus

• crochaf yr afon, lleiaf y pysgod (“the more clamorous, the water the fewer the fish”)
• gwrthgroch (“gruff”)

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