crá croí
Irish
Alternative forms
- crádh croidhe (obsolete)
Etymology
Literally, “anguish of a heart”.
Noun
crá 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
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| crá croí | chrá croí | gcrá croí |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- “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
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