crodh

Irish

Alternative forms

  • crudh

Etymology

From Old Irish crod (“cattle, herds, stock; goods, property, wealth”).

Pronunciation

  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈkɾˠʊh/[1] (as if spelled cruth)

Noun

crodh m (genitive singular croidh, nominative plural croidh)

  1. (literary) cattle, wealth (in cattle)
    Synonym: eallach
  2. dowry
    Synonym: spré

Declension

Declension of crodh (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative crodh croidh
vocative a chroidh a chrodha
genitive croidh crodh
dative crodh croidh
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an crodh na croidh
genitive an chroidh na gcrodh
dative leis an gcrodh
don chrodh 		leis na croidh
  • Alternative plural: crodhanna

Mutation

Mutated forms of crodh
radical lenition eclipsis
crodh chrodh gcrodh

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, § 202, page 77

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish crod (“cattle, herds, stock; goods, property, wealth”).

Pronunciation

Noun

crodh m (genitive singular cruidh, no plural)

  1. cattle

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of crodh
radical lenition
crodh chrodh

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

References

  1. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  2. ^ John MacPherson (1945) The Gaelic dialect of North Uist (Thesis)‎[1], Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh
  3. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap

Further reading

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