crónán

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish crónán (“hum, purr, drone; crooning”).

Noun

crónán m (genitive singular crónáin)

1. humming, drone

Declension

Declension of crónán

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative crónán Vocative a chrónáin Genitive crónáin Dative crónán

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an crónán Genitive an chrónáin Dative leis an gcrónán don chrónán

Derived terms

• crónánaí m (“hummer”)

Related terms

• crónánach (“humming”, adjective)
• crónánacht f (“humming”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
crónán	chrónán	gcrónán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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