cruth

English

Noun

cruth (plural cruths)

Alternative form of crwth

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for cruth in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cruth (“form, shape, appearance; beauty of form, shapeliness”).

Noun

cruth m (genitive singular crutha, nominative plural cruthanna)

Declension

Declension of cruth

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cruth	cruthanna
Vocative	a chruth	a chruthanna
Genitive	crutha	cruthanna
Dative	cruth	cruthanna

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an cruth	na cruthanna
Genitive	an chrutha	na gcruthanna
Dative	leis an gcruth don chruth	leis na cruthanna

Derived terms

Terms derived from cruth

anchruth m (“deformity”)
athchruth m (“change of appearance, of shape”)
beathachruth m (“life form”)
buanchruth m (“fixed, stereotyped form”)
-chruthach (“-shaped”)
comhchruthach (“symmetrical”, adjective)
creatchruth m (“framework shape”)

cruthach (“shapely”, adjective)
cruthaigh (“create; form; prove; testify, affirm”, verb)
cruthlíne f (“form line”)
cruthúil (“shapely, beautiful; of promising appearance; of good physique; likely, plausible”, adjective)
dea-chruthach (“well-shaped; shapely; handsome”, adjective)
droch-chruthach (“of bad appearance”, adjective)
ilchruthach (“many-shaped, multiform, polymorphic”, adjective)

ilchruthacht f (“polymorphism”)
imchruth m (“configuration, outline”)
leabhairchruth m (“long slender shape; streamline”)
míchruthach (“misshapen; unsymmetrical”, adjective)
scáthchruth m (“silhouette”)
tonnchruth m (“wave shape”)
ubhchruth m (“oval”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
cruth	chruth	gcruth
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"cruth" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“1 cruth” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish cruth (“form, shape, appearance; beauty of form, shapeliness”).

Noun

cruth m (genitive singular crutha, plural cruthan or cruthannan)

shape, form

Synonyms

cumadh

Derived terms

cruth-clò (“font”)
cruth-tìre (“landscape”)

References

Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
“1 cruth” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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