See also: crag and crág-

Irish

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Etymology

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From the variant cròg, itself related to crobh (paw).[1]

Noun

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crág f (genitive singular cráige, nominative plural crága)

  1. large hand; claw, paw
  2. handful
    Synonyms: lán glaice, lán láimhe
  3. (mechanical engineering) clutch
  4. (biology) chela
  5. (rugby) maul

Declension

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Declension of crág (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative crág crága
vocative a chrág a chrága
genitive cráige crág
dative crág crága
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an chrág na crága
genitive na cráige na gcrág
dative leis an gcrág
don chrág
leis na crága

Derived terms

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Verb

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crág (present analytic crágann, future analytic crágfaidh, verbal noun crágadh, past participle crágtha)

  1. (chemistry, intransitive) chelate

Conjugation

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of crág
radical lenition eclipsis
crág chrág gcrág

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

References

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  1. ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “cròg”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[1], Stirling, →ISBN

Further reading

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