crá croí
Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editLiterally, “anguish of a heart”.
Noun
editcrá croí m (genitive singular crá chroí)
- heartbreak, heartache
- Synonyms: briseadh croí, croíbhriseadh
- nuisance (minor annoyance or inconvenience; person or thing causing annoyance of inconvenience)
- pain, torment (suffering or anguish, especially mental)
- nuisance, pain, pest, vexation (person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience)
- Synonym: pian sa tóin
Mutation
edit| radical | lenition | eclipsis |
|---|---|---|
| crá croí | chrá croí | gcrá croí |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
edit- “crá”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “cráḋ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “crá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN