Old Irish

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Etymology

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Created due to contamination with ícc (payment). It displaced críth.[1]

Noun

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creicc f (genitive crecce)

  1. verbal noun of crenaid: purchase, buying

Inflection

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  • Genitive singular: crecce
  • Dative singular: creicc

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: creicc

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
creicc chreicc creicc
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 737

Further reading

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