cretoor

Manx

Etymology

From Middle Irish crétúir (modern Irish créatúr), ultimately from Late Latin creātūra, likely via English creature or a Romance language.

Noun

cretoor m (genitive singular cretoor, plural cretooryn)

1. creature, animal

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cretoor	chretoor	gretoor
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “crétúir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language