cruitire

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cruittire, from crott, cruitt (“harp, lute”).

Noun

cruitire m (genitive singular cruitire, nominative plural cruitirí)

1. harpist

Declension

Declension of cruitire (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative cruitire cruitirí vocative a chruitire a chruitirí genitive cruitire cruitirí dative cruitire cruitirí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an cruitire na cruitirí genitive an chruitire na gcruitirí dative leis an gcruitire don chruitire leis na cruitirí

Synonyms

• cláirseoir m

Related terms

• cruit (“(small) harp”)
• cruitireacht (“(act of) harping”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of cruitire

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cruitire	chruitire	gcruitire

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) “cruitire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “harpist”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025