creig

Irish

Alternative forms

  • sgreag, sgreig (obsolete)
  • craig, creag, scraig, screag, screig[1]

Etymology

From Middle Irish crec,[2] a contracted form of carrac, from Proto-Celtic *karsekki, from Proto-Indo-European *kars- (“to scrape roughly”), similar to English harsh.[3] Alternatively, the Middle Irish is from Proto-Celtic *karrikā, from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂er- (“hard”) (compare Manx carrick, Welsh carreg).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /cɾʲeɟ/[4][5]
  • (Galway) IPA(key): /cɾʲæɡ/ ~ /cɾʲeɡ/ (corresponding to the form creag)[4]; /kɾˠæɟ/ ~ /kɾˠeɟ/ (corresponding to the form craig)[4]
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /cɾʲɨɡ/[6] (corresponding to the form creag)

Noun

creig f (genitive singular creige, nominative plural creaga or creigeacha or creigeanna)

  1. crag, rock

Declension

Declension of creig (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative creig creaga
vocative a chreig a chreaga
genitive creige creaga
dative creig creaga
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an chreig na creaga
genitive na creige na gcreaga
dative leis an gcreig
don chreig 		leis na creaga

Alternative plural forms: creigeacha, creigeanna

Derived terms

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

Mutation

Mutated forms of creig
radical lenition eclipsis
creig chreig gcreig

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ “creig”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “crec”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “carraig”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎[1], Stirling, →ISBN
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 162
  5. ^ de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1977) Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht [The Irish of Cois Fharraige: Accidence] (in Irish), 2nd edition, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath [Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies], page 323
  6. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 106, page 42

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