gró

See also: gro, Gro, GRO, and -gro-

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /krouː/
    Rhymes: -ouː

Noun

gró n (genitive singular grós, nominative plural gró)

  1. (biology) spore

Declension

Declension of gró (neuter)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative gró gróið gró gróin
accusative gró gróið gró gróin
dative grói gróinu gróum gróunum
genitive grós grósins gróa gróanna

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Alteration of cró (“crowbar”), from English crow (“iron bar”).

Pronunciation

Noun

gró m (genitive singular gró, nominative plural gróite)

  1. crowbar, crow (iron bar)

Declension

Declension of gró (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative gró gróite
vocative a ghró a ghróite
genitive gró gróite
dative gró gróite
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an gró na gróite
genitive an ghró na ngróite
dative leis an ngró
don ghró 		leis na gróite

Mutation

Mutated forms of gró
radical lenition eclipsis
gró ghró ngró

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

References

  1. ^ “gródh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 275

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