creig

• creag

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).

• IPA^(key): /cɾʲɛɟ/

creig f (genitive singular creige, nominative plural creaga)

1. crag, rock

• lon creige (“ring ouzel”)
• creig-ghairdín (“rockery”)

• “creig”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, 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