cruas

Irish

Etymology

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

Noun

cruas m (genitive singular cruais)

  1. hardness
  2. stinginess

Declension
Declension of cruas

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative cruas
Vocative a chruais
Genitive cruais
Dative cruas

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an cruas
Genitive an chruais
Dative leis an gcruas

don chruas

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

Portuguese

Adjective

cruas

  1. Feminine plural of adjective cru.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Noun

cruas m (genitive singular cruais, no plural)

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

Synonyms
  • (illiberality): mì-shuairceas, neo-fhialaidheachd, neo-fhlathaileachd, neo-uaisle

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

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
  • “crúas” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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