crág

See also: crag and crág-

Irish

Etymology

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

Noun

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

Derived terms

  • crág bhíomail (“brace-chuck”)
  • crág chuimilte (“friction clutch”)
  • crág dhiosca (“disk clutch”)
  • crág- (“cheli-”)
  • crágach (“having large hands; chelate; chelating”, adjective)
  • crágachán, crágaire (“clawer, pawer; awkward walker”)
  • crágaí (“person with large hands”)
  • crágáil (“claw, paw; handle roughly or unskilfully; walk awkwardly; toil along”)
  • crágán (“(little) claw; chuck”)
  • crágchoimpléacs (“chelate complex”)
  • crágdhruilire (“ratchet-drill”)

Verb

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

  1. (chemistry, intransitive) chelate

Conjugation

Mutation

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

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

Further reading

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