# cró
## Irish
### Pronunciation

* (Munster, Connacht) IPA: /kɾˠoː/
* (Ulster) IPA: /kɾˠɔː/

### Etymology 1

From Old Irish cró, from Proto-Celtic *kruwos, *kruwyos (“enclosure”). Cognate with Breton krao (“eye of a needle”), kraou (“stable”), Welsh crau (“hole; eye socket; sty”), Cornish krow (“hut, shed, sty”). From Proto-Indo-European *krewH- (“to cover”), compare Old English hrēodan (“to cover”), Old Church Slavonic крꙑти (kryti, “to hide”).

#### Noun

cró m (genitive singular cró, nominative plural cróite)
* eye, socket
* bore
* (photography) aperture
* ring
* enclosure; fold, pen
* (small) outbuilding
* mean dwelling, hovel
* hollow; (topography) hollow, hole

##### Declension

bare forms
singular
plural
nominative
cró
cróite
vocative
a chró
a chróite
genitive
cró
cróite
dative
cró
cróite
forms with the definite article
singular
plural
nominative
an cró
na cróite
genitive
an chró
na gcróite
dative
leis an gcró don chró
leis na cróite :

##### Derived terms

* bolta cró
* cró an chinn
* cró beaignite
* cró béar
* cró beithíoch
* cró bíomail
* cró bolgáin
* cró bolta
* cró catha
* cró cearc
* Cró Choinn
* cró Chríost
* cró coinín
* cró coinnleora
* cró comhla
* cró cúltreorach
* cró dornálaíochta
* cró folaigh
* cró gunna
* cró lampa
* cró madra
* cró meáite
* cró muc
* cró muice
* cró na baithise
* cró pacála
* cró pinn
* cró píopa
* cró ribeach
* cró scuaibe
* cró sleá
* cró sluaiste
* cró snáthaide
* cró sorcais
* cró stile
* cró tarbhchomhraic
* cró troda
* cró uimhriúil
* crúca is cró
* tomhas cró

### Etymology 2

From Old Irish crú (“blood”), from Proto-Celtic *krowos, from Proto-Indo-European *kréwh₂s.

#### Noun

cró m (genitive singular cró)
* blood, gore

##### Declension

bare forms
singular
nominative
cró
vocative
a chró
genitive
cró
dative
cró
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative
an cró
genitive
an chró
dative
leis an gcró don chró :

##### Derived terms

* cosair chró (“shambles”)

### Etymology 3

From English crow (“iron bar”).

#### Noun

cró m (genitive singular cró, nominative plural cróite)
* Alternative form of gró (“crowbar, crow (iron bar)”)

##### Declension

bare forms
singular
plural
nominative
cró
cróite
vocative
a chró
a chróite
genitive
cró
cróite
dative
cró
cróite
forms with the definite article
singular
plural
nominative
an cró
na cróite
genitive
an chró
na gcróite
dative
leis an gcró don chró
leis na cróite :

### References

* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 cró”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Matasović, Ranko (2011 December) “Addenda et corrigenda to Ranko Matasović’s Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Brill, Leiden 2009)”, in Homepage of Ranko Matasović‎, Zagreb, page 23
* ↑ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “crau”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
* ↑ Zair, Nicholas (2012) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 170
* ↑ Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*kreu̯H-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 371
* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 crú”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 cró”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cró”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cró ‘socket’”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 196
* Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “cró ‘gore’”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 197
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cró”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “cró”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

### Mutation

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