crodh

Irish

Alternative forms

• crudh

Etymology

From Old Irish crod (“cattle, herds, stock; goods, property, wealth”).

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈkɾˠʊh/ (as if spelled cruth)

Noun

crodh m (genitive singular croidh, nominative plural croidh)

1. (literary) cattle, wealth (in cattle)

   Synonym: eallach

2. dowry

   Synonym: spré

Declension

Declension of crodh

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative crodh croidh Vocative a chroidh a chrodha Genitive croidh crodh Dative crodh croidh

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an crodh na croidh Genitive an chroidh na gcrodh Dative leis an gcrodh don chrodh leis na croidh

• Alternative plural: crodhanna

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
crodh	chrodh	gcrodh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “crodh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “crodh”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 crod”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish crod (“cattle, herds, stock; goods, property, wealth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʰɾoː/

Noun

crodh m (genitive singular cruidh, no plural)

1. cattle

Derived terms

• gille-cruidh

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
crodh	chrodh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 crod”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language