crios

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish criss, from Proto-Celtic *krissus (“belt”) (compare Welsh crys (“shirt”), Cornish krys, Breton krez), from Proto-Indo-European *kerdʰ- (compare Proto-Slavic *čersъ (“money belt”)).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /cɾʲɪsˠ/, /cɾʲʊsˠ/
  • (Kerry) IPA(key): /cɾʲɨ̞sˠ/, /cɾʲɪsˠ/[2]

Noun

crios m (genitive singular creasa or criosa or cris, nominative plural criosanna or creasa or creasanna)

  1. (clothing) belt, girdle, cincture
  2. belt (of a machine)
    Synonym: beilt
  3. (geography) belt, area, region, zone
    Synonym: réigiún

Declension

Standard form (third declension, strong plural):

Declension of crios

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative crios criosanna
Vocative a chrios a chriosanna
Genitive creasa criosanna
Dative crios criosanna

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an crios na criosanna
Genitive an chreasa na gcriosanna
Dative leis an gcrios

don chrios

 leis na criosanna

Alternative form (third declension, weak plural):

Declension of crios

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative crios creasa
Vocative a chrios a chreasa
Genitive creasa crios
Dative crios creasa

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an crios na creasa
Genitive an chreasa na gcrios
Dative leis an gcrios

don chrios

 leis na creasa

Alternative form (third declension, strong plural):

Declension of crios

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative crios criosanna
Vocative a chrios a chriosanna
Genitive criosa criosanna
Dative crios criosanna

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an crios na criosanna
Genitive an chriosa na gcriosanna
Dative leis an gcrios

don chrios

 leis na criosanna

Alternative form (first declension):

Declension of crios

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative crios creasanna
Vocative a chris a chreasanna
Genitive cris creasanna
Dative crios creasanna

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an crios na creasanna
Genitive an chris na gcreasanna
Dative leis an gcrios

don chrios

 leis na creasanna

Derived terms

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

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 225
  2. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 58

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish criss, from Proto-Celtic *krissus (“belt”) (compare Welsh crys (“shirt”), Cornish krys, Breton krez), from Proto-Indo-European *kerdʰ- (compare Proto-Slavic *čersъ (“money belt”)).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /kʰɾʲis̪/

Noun

crios m (genitive singular criosa, plural criosan)

  1. belt, band

Derived terms

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

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 225
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