cruimhthir

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cruimther, from Primitive Irish ᚊᚏᚔᚋᚔᚈᚔᚏ (qrimitir), from Old Welsh primter, from Latin presbyter. Doublet of preispitéir.

Noun

cruimhthir m (genitive singular cruimhthreach, nominative plural cruimhthreach)

1. (archaic) priest, presbyter

   Synonym: sagart

Declension

Declension of cruimhthir (irregular)

bare forms case singular plural nominative cruimhthir cruimhthreach vocative a chruimhthir a chruimhthreach genitive cruimhthreach cruimhthreach dative cruimhthir cruimhthreach forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an cruimhthir na cruimhthreach genitive an chruimhthreach na gcruimhthreach dative leis an gcruimhthir don chruimhthir leis na cruimhthreach

Mutation

Mutated forms of cruimhthir

radical	lenition	eclipsis
cruimhthir	chruimhthir	gcruimhthir

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “cruiṁṫir”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cruimhthir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language