crá

See also: cra, CRA, and crâ

Irish

From Middle Irish crád.^[2] Perhaps related to Old Irish tacráth (verbal noun of do·accrádi (“to provoke”)) and acraidecht (“legal action for recovery of payment”).^[3] Possibly from Proto-Celtic *krādos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“to break”).^[4]

crá m (genitive singular as substantive crá, genitive as verbal noun cráite)

As substantive:

Declension of crá (fourth declension, no plural)

forms with the definite article
case	singular
nominative	an crá
genitive	an chrá
dative	leis an gcrá don chrá

As verbal noun:

Declension of crá (third declension, no plural)

forms with the definite article
case	singular
nominative	an crá
genitive	an chráite
dative	leis an gcrá don chrá

Mutated forms of *crá*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
crá	chrá	gcrá

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

^ “crá”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “crád”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Vendryes, Joseph (1987) “crád”, in Lexique Étymologique de l'Irlandais Ancien [Etymological lexicon of Old Irish] (in French), volume C, Dublin, Paris: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, page C-221
^ Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 79
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 121, page 65
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 145, page 57