airgead croise

Irish

airgead croise

Etymology

Literally, “cross money”

Noun

airgead croise m (genitive singular airgid chroise, nominative plural airgid chroise)

1. coin embossed with a cross
2. florin (pre-decimal British coin, worth two shillings or ten new pence)

Synonyms

• (florin): flóirín

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
airgead croise	n-airgead croise	hairgead croise	t-airgead croise
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• “airgead croise”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “airgead”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “airgead croise”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN