creag

Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

creag f (genitive singular creige, nominative plural creaga)

  1. Alternative form of creig

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
creag chreag gcreag
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 42

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish crec, a contracted form of Old Irish carrac, from Proto-Celtic *karsekki, from Proto-Indo-European *kars- (“to scrape roughly”), similar to English harsh.[1]

Alternatively, the Old Irish is from Proto-Celtic *karrikā, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂er- (“hard”) (compare Manx carrick, Welsh carreg).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kʰɾek/

Noun

creag f (dative singular creag or creig, genitive singular creige, plural creagan)

  1. rock, crag
  2. cliff
  3. precipice
  4. quarry
  5. hill

Synonyms

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
creagchreag
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “carraig”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎, Stirling, →ISBN

Further reading
  • Dravidian Origins and the West: Newly Discovered Ties with the Ancient Culture and Languages, Including Basque, of the Pre-Indo-European Mediterranean World, p. 325
  • Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition
  • Scigliano, Eric (2007): Michelangelo's Mountain: The Quest For Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara, p. 84
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