cró

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See also: cro, and CRO

Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish cró,[1] from Proto-Celtic *kruwos, *kruwyos (“enclosure”).[2] Cognate with Breton krao (“eye of a needle”), kraou (“stable”), Welsh crau (“hole; eye socket; sty”),[3] Cornish krow (“hut, shed, sty”). From Proto-Indo-European *krewH- (“to cover”), compare Old English hrēodan (“to cover”), Old Church Slavonic крꙑти (kryti, “to hide”).[4][5]

Noun

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cró m (genitive singular cró, nominative plural cróite)

  1. eye, socket
  2. bore
  3. (photography) aperture
  4. ring
  5. enclosure; fold, pen
  6. (small) outbuilding
  7. mean dwelling, hovel
  8. hollow; (topography) hollow, hole
Declension
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Declension of cró

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cró cróite
Vocative a chró a chróite
Genitive cró cróite
Dative cró cróite

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an cró na cróite
Genitive an chró na gcróite
Dative leis an gcró

don chró

leis na cróite
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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From Old Irish crú (“blood”),[6][7] from Proto-Celtic *krowos, from Proto-Indo-European *kréwh₂s.

Noun

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cró m (genitive singular cró)

  1. blood, gore
Declension
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Declension of cró

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative cró
Vocative a chró
Genitive cró
Dative cró

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an cró
Genitive an chró
Dative leis an gcró

don chró

Derived terms
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Etymology 3

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From English crow (“iron bar”).

Noun

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cró m (genitive singular cró, nominative plural cróite)

  1. Alternative form of gró (“crowbar, crow (iron bar)”)
Declension
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Declension of cró

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cró cróite
Vocative a chró a chróite
Genitive cró cróite
Dative cró cróite

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an cró na cróite
Genitive an chró na gcróite
Dative leis an gcró

don chró

leis na cróite

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cró”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2011 December) “Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)”, in Homepage of Ranko Matasović‎[1], Zagreb, page 23
  3. ^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “crau”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
  4. ^ Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 170
  5. ^ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*kreu̯H-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 371
  6. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 crú”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  7. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 cró”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cró chró gcró
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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