Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish cruimther, from Primitive Irish ᚊᚏᚔᚋᚔᚈᚔᚏ (qrimitir), from Old Welsh primter, from Latin presbyter. Doublet of preispitéir.
Noun
cruimhthir m (genitive singular cruimhthreach, nominative plural cruimhthreach)
- (archaic) priest, presbyter
- Synonym: sagart
Declension
Declension of cruimhthir (irregular)
| bare forms
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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cruimhthir
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cruimhthreach
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| vocative
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a chruimhthir
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a chruimhthreach
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| genitive
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cruimhthreach
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cruimhthreach
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| dative
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cruimhthir
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cruimhthreach
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Mutation
Mutated forms of cruimhthir
| radical
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lenition
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eclipsis
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| cruimhthir
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chruimhthir
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gcruimhthir
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “cruiṁṫir”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 275; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cruimhthir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language