creig
Irish
Alternative forms
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): /cɾʲɛɟ/
Declension
Declension of creig
Second declension
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Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
- lon creige (“ring ouzel”)
- creig-ghairdín (“rockery”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| creig | chreig | gcreig |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “carraig”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN
Further reading
- “creig”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “crec”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “creag”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 192
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “creig”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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