cráifeach

Irish

Alternative forms

crábhthach, cráibhtheach^[1]

Etymology

From Old Irish cráibdech, cráifech (“pious, faithful”), from crábud (“piety, devotion, religion”) + -ach (compare modern crábhadh).^[2]

Pronunciation

(Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾˠɑːfʲəx/
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾˠaːfʲa(x)/^[3]

Adjective

cráifeach (genitive singular masculine cráifigh, genitive singular feminine cráifí, plural cráifeacha, comparative cráifí)

religious
pious, devout

Declension

Declension of cráifeach

Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Nominative	cráifeach	chráifeach	cráifeacha; chráifeacha²
Vocative	chráifigh	chráifeach	cráifeacha
Genitive	chráifigh	cráifí	cráifeacha	cráifeach
Dative	cráifeach; chráifeach¹	chráifeach; chráifigh (archaic)	cráifeacha; chráifeacha²
Comparative	níos cráifí
Superlative	is cráifí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

Related terms

crábhadh m (“religious practice; piety, devotion”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cráifeach	chráifeach	gcráifeach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

^ “cráifeach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cráibdech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 319, page 112