cruithneachd

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

  • croineachd
  • cruineachd

Etymology

From Old Irish cruithnecht, from a compound whose second element is Proto-Celtic *nixtos (“winnowed, wheat”) (compare Welsh gwe-nith (“wheat”) from *uɸo-nixtos), from Proto-Indo-European *neyk- (“to winnow”). Cognate with Irish cruithneacht and Manx curnaght.

Pronunciation

  • (Skye) IPA(key): /ˈkʰɾinəxk/[1]

Noun

cruithneachd f

  1. wheat

Derived terms

  • aran-cruithneachd (“wheat bread”)
  • brochan-cruithneachd (“flummery”)
  • cruithneachd-buidhe (“buckwheat”)

Mutation

Mutation of cruithneachd
radical lenition
cruithneachd chruithneachd

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

References

  1. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1941) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. II: The dialects of Skye and Ross-shire, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap, page 18

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “cruithneachd”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cruithnecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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