creag

Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

creag f (genitive singular creige, nominative plural creaga)

  1. Alternative form of creig

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
creag chreag gcreag
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 42

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish crec, a contracted form of Old Irish carrac, from Proto-Celtic *karsekki, from Proto-Indo-European *kars- (“to scrape roughly”), similar to English harsh.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kʰɾek/

Noun

creag f (genitive singular creige, plural creagan)

  1. rock, crag
  2. cliff
  3. precipice
  4. quarry
  5. hill

Synonyms

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
creagchreag
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), “carraig”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN

Further reading
  • Dravidian Origins and the West: Newly Discovered Ties with the Ancient Culture and Languages, Including Basque, of the Pre-Indo-European Mediterranean World, p. 325
  • Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition
  • Scigliano, Eric (2007): Michelangelo's Mountain: The Quest For Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara, p. 84
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