cruachás

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

crua (hard) + cás (case)

Noun

cruachás m (genitive singular cruacháis, nominative plural cruachásanna)

  1. predicament, miserable condition
    • 1894 March, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:
      “Innseóchaidh mise dhuit cad é budh chiall dó sin,” ars an rí; “sé sin daoine a bhí ag troid ar an tsaoghal seo, ⁊ droch-theacht-le-chéile aca, agus beidh siad ins an chruadh-chás sin go dtí lá an bhreitheaṁnais.”
      "I will tell you what that means," says the king. "That signifies people who used to be fighting and at enmity with each other, and they will be in that miserable condition till the day of judgment."

Declension

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cruachás chruachás gcruachás
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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