creicc
Old Irish
Etymology
Created due to contamination with ícc (“payment”). It displaced críth.[1]
Noun
creicc f (genitive crecce)
- verbal noun of crenaid: purchase, buying
Inflection
- Genitive singular: crecce
- Dative singular: creicc
Derived terms
- fochricc
Descendants
- Middle Irish: creicc
- Irish: creic
- Scottish Gaelic: creic
- Manx: creck
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| creicc | chreicc | creicc pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003), D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 737
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cre(i)cc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language