cruas

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish crúas (hardness, stiffness, rigour), from crúaid (hard, hardy, harsh; stern, strict) (compare modern crua).

Noun

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cruas m (genitive singular cruais)

  1. hardness
  2. stinginess

Declension

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
cruas chruas gcruas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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Old Galician-Portuguese

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Adjective

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cruas

  1. feminine plural of cruu

Portuguese

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Adjective

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cruas

  1. feminine plural of cru

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish crúas (hardness, stiffness, rigour), from crúaid (hard, hardy, harsh; stern, strict) (compare modern cruaidh, which probably shares the same ultimate root).

Noun

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cruas m (genitive singular cruais, no plural)

  1. difficulty, hardship, crisis, severity, durability, distress, rigour
  2. illiberality, stinginess

Synonyms

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Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
cruas chruas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “cruas”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “crúas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language