gró

See also: gro, Gro, GRO, and -gro-

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /krouː/

  Rhymes: -ouː

Noun

gró n (genitive singular grós, nominative plural gró)

1. (biology) spore

Declension

Declension of gró (neuter)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	gró	gróið	gró	gróin
accusative	gró	gróið	gró	gróin
dative	grói	gróinu	gróum	gróunum
genitive	grós	grósins	gróa	gróanna

Irish

Alternative forms

• cró
• gródh (superseded)

Etymology

Alteration of cró (“crowbar”), from English crow (“iron bar”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ɡɾˠoː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ɡɾˠɔː/

Noun

gró m (genitive singular gró, nominative plural gróite)

1. crowbar, crow (iron bar)

Declension

Declension of gró (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative gró gróite vocative a ghró a ghróite genitive gró gróite dative gró gróite forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an gró na gróite genitive an ghró na ngróite dative leis an ngró don ghró leis na gróite

Mutation

Mutated forms of gró

radical	lenition	eclipsis
gró	ghró	ngró

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

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cró”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 197
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gró”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN