Irish
- cnamhóg, cneamhdóg, cnuimheog, cnumhóg
Etymology
From cruimh (“worm”) + -óg.
Pronunciation
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈkɾˠʊ̃wɔɡ/
Noun
crumhóg f (genitive singular crumhóige, nominative plural crumhóga)
- maggot
- Synonym: cruimh
Declension
Declension of crumhóg (second declension)
| bare forms
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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crumhóg
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crumhóga
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| vocative
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a chrumhóg
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a chrumhóga
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| genitive
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crumhóige
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crumhóg
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| dative
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crumhóg
crumhóig (archaic, dialectal)
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crumhóga
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| forms with the definite article
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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an chrumhóg
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na crumhóga
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| genitive
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na crumhóige
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na gcrumhóg
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| dative
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leis an gcrumhóg
leis an gcrumhóig (archaic, dialectal)
don chrumhóg
don chrumhóig (archaic, dialectal)
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leis na crumhóga
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Mutation
Mutated forms of crumhóg
| radical
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lenition
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eclipsis
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| crumhóg
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chrumhóg
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gcrumhóg
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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
- “crumhóg”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “? crumóc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “crumhóg”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 75
