crág

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See also: crag and crág-

Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Verb[edit]

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

  1. (chemistry, intransitive) chelate

Conjugation[edit]

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
crág chrág gcrág
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References[edit]

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

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