creig

Irish

Alternative forms

• creag

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /cɾʲɛɟ/

Noun

creig f (genitive singular creige, nominative plural creaga)

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

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.

Further reading

• “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