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

Mutated forms of crodh

radical	lenition	eclipsis
crodh	chrodh	gcrodh

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “crodh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “crodh”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025
• 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

• (Lewis) IPA^(key): /kʰɾoh/
• (Uist, Barra) IPA^(key): /kʰɾoɣ/

Noun

crodh m (genitive singular cruidh, no plural)

1. cattle

Derived terms

• gille-cruidh

Mutation

Mutation of crodh

radical	lenition
crodh	chrodh

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

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