Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Celtic *kridyom, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

cride n (genitive cridi, nominative plural cride)

  1. heart
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 7d10
      ɔrop inonn cretem bes hi far cridiu et a n-as·beraid hó bélib
      so that the belief which is in your pl heart and what you utter with [your] lips may be the same
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 14c23
      co beid .i. co mbed a ndéde sin im labrad-sa .i. gáu et fír .i. combad sain a n‑as·berin ó bélib et aní imme·rádin ó chridiu
      so that there may be, i.e. so that those two things might be in my speaking, namely false and true, i.e. so that what I might say with [my] mouth and what I might think with [my] heart might be different

Declension edit

Neuter io-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative crideN crideL crideL
Vocative crideN crideL crideL
Accusative crideN crideL crideL
Genitive cridiL crideL crideN
Dative cridiuL cridib cridib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Irish: croí
  • Manx: cree
  • Scottish Gaelic: cridhe

Mutation edit

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

Further reading edit