carraig

Irish
Carraig

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish carrac (“rock, large stone”) (compare Manx carrick, Welsh carreg).

Pronunciation

Noun

carraig f (genitive singular carraige, nominative plural carraigeacha)

  1. rock
    • 2015, Proinsias Mac a' Bhaird, transl.; Maura McHugh, editor, Amhrán na Mara (fiction, paperback), Kilkenny, County Kilkenny; Howth, Dublin: Cartoon Saloon; Coiscéim, translation of Song of the Sea by Will Collins, →ISBN, page 2:
      Briseann tonnta boga in aghaidh na gcarraigeacha thíos faoi.
      Waves gently lap against the rocks below.

Declension
Declension of carraig

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative carraig carraigeacha
Vocative a charraig a charraigeacha
Genitive carraige carraigeacha
Dative carraig carraigeacha

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an charraig na carraigeacha
Genitive na carraige na gcarraigeacha
Dative leis an gcarraig

don charraig

 leis na carraigeacha

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

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish carrac (“rock, large stone”) (compare Manx carrick, Welsh carreg).

Noun

carraig f (genitive singular carraige, plural carraigean)

  1. rock, crag

Synonyms

References
  • Edward Dwelly (1911), “carraig”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “carrac”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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