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crou

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Manx

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Etymology

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From Old Irish cruë (“hoof”)[1], cognate with Irish crú and Scottish Gaelic crudha.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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crou f (genitive singular crou, plural crouyn or croughyn)

  1. a horseshoe
  2. the iron band on the felloe of a wheel

Usage notes

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Cregeen notes that the plural crouyn is used with meaning 1 and croughyn with meaning 2. [2]

Mutation

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Mutation of crou
radical lenition eclipsis
crou chrou grou

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

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cruë”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Archibald Cregeen, (1835). A dictionary of the Manks language. p. 50
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