cride

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kridyom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkʲrʲiðʲe]

Noun

cride n (genitive cridi, nominative plural cride)

1. heart
   • 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. 7^d10

     ɔrop inonn cretem bes hi far cridiu et a n-as·beraid hó bélib

     so that the belief which is in your pl heart and what you utter with [your] lips may be the same

   • 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. 14^c23

     co beid .i. co mbed a ndéde sin im labrad-sa .i. gáu et fír .i. combad sain a n‑as·berin ó bélib et aní imme·rádin ó chridiu

     so that there may be, i.e. so that those two things might be in my speaking, namely false and true, i.e. so that what I might say with [my] mouth and what I might think with [my] heart might be different

Declension

Neuter io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	crideN	crideL	crideL
Vocative	crideN	crideL	crideL
Accusative	crideN	crideL	crideL
Genitive	cridiL	crideL	crideN
Dative	cridiuL	cridib	cridib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• ancride

Descendants

• Irish: croí
• Manx: cree
• Scottish Gaelic: cridhe

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
cride	chride	cride pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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