cruimhthir

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cruimther, from Primitive Irish ᚊᚏᚔᚋᚔᚈᚔᚏ (qrimitir), from Old Welsh primter, from Latin presbyter. Doublet of preispitéir.

Noun

cruimhthir m (genitive singular cruimhthreach, nominative plural cruimhthreach)

1. (archaic) priest, presbyter

   Synonym: sagart

Declension

Declension of cruimhthir

Irregular

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative cruimhthir cruimhthreach Vocative a chruimhthir a chruimhthreach Genitive cruimhthreach cruimhthreach Dative cruimhthir cruimhthreach

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an cruimhthir na cruimhthreach Genitive an chruimhthreach na gcruimhthreach Dative leis an gcruimhthir don chruimhthir leis na cruimhthreach

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cruimhthir	chruimhthir	gcruimhthir
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “cruiṁṫir”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cruimhthir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language